Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
John Murray
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Standard Name: Murray, John,, 1808 - 1892
Used Form: John Murray, the third
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Isabella Bird | After this she published her first book, and embarked on what became a lifelong friendship with her publisher, John Murray the third
. |
Employer | Isabella Bird | She was in fact commissioned to go and write about the situation by her publisher, John Murray
, whom she suspected of plotting to help her overcome her mourning for her husband through work. Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press. 161 |
Publishing | Isabella Bird | 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... |
Publishing | Isabella Bird | In the late 1880s, during a respite from travel, IB
both took up public lecturing, and contributed articles on her brief visit to Ireland for publication in John Murray
's new Murray's Magazine. This... |
Literary responses | Isabella Bird | The book received favourable reviews from many periodicals including the Quarterly Review, St James Gazette, Scotsman, Contemporary Review, and the Athenæum. John Murray
professed himself amazed at a unanimity of... |
Publishing | Mary Cowden Clarke | In her memoirs MCC
wrote that all my experience of publishers has been most agreeable. Contrary to the prejudiced opinion sometimes expressed, that authors and publishers are often antagonistic in their transactions, I have invariably... |
Wealth and Poverty | Anna Brownell Jameson | Anne Procter
and Thackeray
were active in soliciting financial aid for her. John Murray
and Thackeray later became her trustees. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press. 190 |
Publishing | Harriet Martineau | |
Textual Production | Louisa Anne Meredith | Publishing for the first time under her married name, Mrs. Charles Meredith, LAM
offered her autobiographical travel narrative Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, During a Residence in that Colony from 1839... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Rigby | The groom was sixteen years her senior. They had been engaged since January, some time after they were introduced at the home of John Murray
. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 64-5 Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 1: 223 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | The tribute was much appreciated by the Queen
. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 111 Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press. 2: 165 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Rigby | Around this time ER
was having strained relations with her other publisher and friend John Murray
over some bad advice about investments that she had received from his wife's brothers. Correspondence suggests that she went... |
Travel | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
began a three-month stay with publisher John Murray
the third and his mother in London. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 53 |
Travel | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
stayed with the Murray
s (her publisher and his family) in London. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 60 Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 1: 185 |
Travel | Elizabeth Rigby | John Murraycommissioned her to attend and describe an Exhibition of Modern German Art at Düsseldorf. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 60 |
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