John Murray

EAP was projecting an essay periodical in 1815 (she had the first two numbers planned) when this long poem, written at sixteen, appeared. At about the same time she was reading Wordsworth'sRecluse and poems...

EAP claimed that for some years my mind has dwelt with peculiar interest on the possibility of reaching the Pole. The catalyst for her writing was her visit to see the ships. The Arctic...

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...

The protagonist has an invalid mother. She takes disappointments and setbacks bravely, tramping round one publisher's office after another. Her eventual success brings her the happiness of her own (unshared) country cottage. The novel includes...

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...

The preface notes that the work was ready for publication in the Spring, but delayed by the publisher 's wish, on account of the agitated state of the political atmosphere.

Her letters detailing her collaboration with Brandl show that she found him very charming. Her inclination to subject his work to heavy editing (it will prove too clever for our English public, she thought)...

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...

CADS was bitterly disappointed when both Heinemann and John Murray rejected her Elizabethan novel, Ulalia; it remained unpublished, but she always considered it one of her best works.

The firm of John Murray declined to publish Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus, which had been offered to them through H[orace] (or Horatio) Smith , a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley , the author 's husband.

MS was a considerable time employed in writing this book, and sent it to Brougham for appraisal with some anxiety. Brougham deemed it too advanced to be accessible to his intended public readership, and...

As was normal practice for scientific texts at the time, MS had canvassed a number of her learned friends for aid in preparing and proofreading her manuscript. Lord Brougham , Michael Faraday , James Forbes

John Murray of London published MS 's most successful book, an explanatory textbook in two volumes entitled Physical Geography.

John Murray published Somerville's posthumous autobiography, Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville , with Selections from her Correspondence.

GS 's De l'Allemagne (Germany), a work on German culture and politics suppressed by Napoleon , was finally published by John Murray at London, from a copy of proofs which she had hidden.