MS
was a considerable time employed in writing this book,
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers.
166
and sent it to Brougham for appraisal with some anxiety. Brougham deemed it too advanced to be accessible to his intended public readership, and...
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Caroline Bowles
It featured coloured engravings by George Cruikshank
, done from Bowles's own sketches. John Murray
rejected this poem for publication. Bowles is often not catalogued as its author.
Blain, Virginia. “Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey Negotiates Blackwoods 1820-1847”. Victorian Journalism, edited by Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, Queensland University Press, pp. 1-18.
Privately printed, MB
's collection My Portrait Gallery, and Other Poems appeared; it could be obtained upon application to John Murray
, publishers, for 7s 6d.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Boyle, Mary. My Portrait Gallery, and Other Poems. Privately printed by Bradbury and Evans.
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Mary Renault
With its British publication in February 1979, she moved from Allen Lane
to a publishing firm new for her, John Murray
. She valued them for having been Byron's publishers, and for being a family...
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Lucie Duff Gordon
LDG
began work on her next translation, Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials, in August 1845, shortly after the death of her infant son. There was a tremendous amount of work involved in condensing the...
Sutherland, Kathryn. “Jane Austen’s Dealings with John Murray and his Firm”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
52
.
6
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Harriet Martineau
She had started it on her previous birthday, 12 June 1838. John Murray
had solicited a novel from her—which would have been the first his firm
had published since Scott
—only to reject it when...
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Anna Eliza Bray
Publisher John Murray
rejected the manuscript, but it was soon accepted by Longmans
, with an agreement that gave the author and her husband half the profits after publishing expenses were covered. Longmans then delayed...
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ
switched to the publisher John Murray
for her fourth novel, The Householder, which was also the first for which she wrote a screenplay (for a film which appeared in 1963).
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan.
238-9
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Harriet Martineau
Again John Murray
reneged, at an advanced stage, on the arrangement for his firm
to publish the book, so HM
turned to Moxon
. Its earnings during the first year following publication paid for her...
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Elizabeth Rigby
She translated many works, though her nephew Charles Eastlake Smith
wrongly credits her with Franz Kugler
's Handbook of Painting: The Schools of Painting in Italy (two volumes, 1851), which her husband
edited. Most library...
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Fanny Kemble
John Murray
bought the publication rights for the play for £450.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
48
He
presented a copy of the eighth edition (which appeared before the end of the year) to the Countess Guiccioli
on her visit...
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Jane Austen
JA
wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child.
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
285
She published it as a Lady: the only one issued this way, since later...
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Louisa Anne Meredith
This book was one of Murray
's Home and Colonial Library series.
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In the preface LAM
explains that her motive for writing was to convey to her friends in England her impressions of the nature...
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Elizabeth Rigby
The book's many illustrations were by her own hand. Publisher John Murray
paid her £100 for the copyright. A second edition appeared with the title Letters from the Shores of the Baltic. This text...
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Shards of Memory. John Murray, 1995.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. The Householder. John Murray, 1960.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Three Continents. John Murray, 1987.
Johnson, Samuel. Sir Joshua’s Nephew. Editor Radcliffe, Susan M., John Murray, 1930.
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Ada Reis. John Murray, 1823.
Lawless, Emily, and Shan Fadh Bullock. The Race of Castlebar. John Murray, 1913.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
Loudon, Jane. Botany for Ladies. John Murray, 1842.
Macaulay, Rose. Abbots Verney. John Murray, 1906.
Macaulay, Rose. The Furnace. John Murray, 1907.
Macaulay, Rose. Views and Vagabonds. John Murray, 1912.
Macnaughtan, Sarah. My War Experiences in Two Continents. Editor Keays-Young, Betty, John Murray, 1919.
Macnaughtan, Sarah. Us Four. John Murray, 1909.
Mango, Andrew. Atatürk. John Murray, 1999.
Mary, Countess Cowper,. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray, 1864.
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
Meredith, Louisa Anne. My Home in Tasmania. John Murray, 1852.
Meredith, Louisa Anne. Notes and Sketches of New South Wales. John Murray, 1844.
Miller, Betty. Robert Browning: A Portrait. John Murray, 1952.
Murphy, Dervla. A Place Apart. John Murray, 1978.
Murphy, Dervla. Full Tilt. John Murray, 1965.
Murphy, Dervla. In Ethiopia with a Mule. John Murray, 1968.
Murphy, Dervla. Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals. John Murray, 2006.
