John Murray

She drafted the first chapter very soon after receiving her six complementary copies of her first novel; the new working title was Marnie. She complained of lack of inspiration, and made a...

RM 's previous publisher, John MurrayJohn Murray , was astonished to learn of her win: she had not submitted the manuscript to him. However, he wrote her a congratulatory note, which he concluded: If at any...

CN 's poem A Voice from the Factories was accepted for publication by John Murray ; it appeared anonymously that year.

Murray paid her £70 for the copyright.

Again she felt sure the book would be a failure, judging it not properly thought out in the beginning, about nothing—stale, flat. Nevertheless she giggled at the thought of it as a defective offspring...

Two years after her second marriage, BBBD had privately printed, again through John Murray , two volumes of Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems.

FS published, with John Murray , East is West. In the United StatesAlfred A. Knopf published this book as The Arab Island: The Middle East, 1939-1943.

The book was translated into French and was pirated in the U.S. in 1865 as Georgy Sandon; or , A Lost Love, AO 's original choice of title. One American edition appeared with the...

The volume cost nine shillings and sixpence, and when the edition of 1,000 sold out, FH 's share of the profits split with John Murray was £66. According to recent editors of the text, the...

She decided to write this one in preference to a different potential novel which was also pressing to be written. She made two false starts before she could feel the story was launched. For use...

IB submitted to her publisher a sizable part of the manuscript of what would become The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands.

When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan , Heinemann (where the managing director told her to bring it back if...

By June 1821 FH had begun working on a five-act tragedy, The Vespers of Palermo. John Murray gave her 200 guineas for the copyright in November 1823 .

The book saw many editions and reprints: from Dodd, Mead and Co. (New York) and Heinemann in 1906 and 1907, John Murray and T. Nelson and Sons in 1908, Murray again in 1910, 1915, and...

Her finished manuscript was submitted to London publisher John Murray , who had published other travel writers. Murray accepted this book, altered its title from the proposed The Car and the Steamboat to The Englishwoman...