Although she grew increasingly frail, ER
continued writing throughout her last years. In January 1889 (her eightieth year) she published in the Quarterly Review another anonymous piece on Italy, Venice: Her Institutions and Private...
Publishing
Elizabeth Grant
Strachey's popular edition was reprinted four more times that year and publisher John Murray
reported a demand for still further copies.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Memoirs of a Highland Lady, edited by Andrew Tod, Canongate.
vii
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...
Publishing
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
She said that William Heinemann
and other publishers were full of the spirit of commercialism. He had reportedly told her: So tragic is the book, it would never find readers.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
Murray
's suggestion that...
Timeline
12 March 1896: The Publishers Association was officially...
Writing climate item
12 March 1896
The Publishers Association
was officially founded at a constitutional meeting in Stationers' Hall, London.