John Murray

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Textual Production Margaret Holford
After her marriage Margaret Hodson published through John Murray in 1827 a volume of hymns designed especially for those facing death, written or else collected by herself. In September that year Joanna Baillie thanked her...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
It was collected in 1810 in The Artist: A Collection of Essays relative to Painting, Poetry, Sculpture, Architecture, the Drama, Discoveries of Science and Various Other Subjects, published by John Murray .
Nachumi, Nora. “’Those Simple Signs’: The Performance of Emotion in Elizabeth Inchbald’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>A Simple Story</span&gt”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 3, pp. 317-38.
325n27
Publishing 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
Publishing 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...
Publishing Lady Caroline Lamb
According to her own account, LCL wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence...
Publishing Lady Caroline Lamb
An odd spin-off from LCL 's desire to make herself into a professional writer was her project for a pocket diary or almanac. These ephemeral publications were repositories of useful information of many kinds as...
Publishing Harriet Lee
John Murray paid HL £300 in probably 1822 for the copyright of the Canterbury Tales; but he made a loss, for sales of his re-issue did not cover his printing expenses, let alone the...
Publishing Rose Macaulay
She used the firm of John Murray , who remained her regular publisher until 1912.
Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana.
356
Biographer Sarah Lefanu believes that she worked off in this novel some of her turbulent emotions about the close...
Publishing Rose Macaulay
This was her last novel published by John Murray .
Publishing Rose Macaulay
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...
Textual Production Sarah Macnaughtan
Through John Murray , SM 's My War Experiences was published posthumously by her niece Betty Keays-Young , or Mrs. Lionel Salmon as she is called on the title-page.
“Mr. Murray’s New Books”. The Nation, Vol.
25
, No. 4, p. 117.
25.4 (26 April 1919): 117
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Sarah Macnaughtan
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...
Publishing Sarah Macnaughtan
It was published by W. Heinemann , with a reissue by John Murray in the same year. Cheap, popular editions were issued by T. Nelson and Sons in 1909, 1910, and 1930.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Sarah Macnaughtan
Those who published the book in 1908 included Thomas Nelson and Sons and John Murray . E. P. Dutton put out a US edition in July of that year.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Literary responses Sarah Macnaughtan
The book's publisher, John Murray , praised it in an advertisement in the English Review: This book, written with the brightness and humour which characterizes Miss Macnaughtan's works, will strongly appeal to all who...

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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.