John Murray

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Standard Name: Murray, John,, 1778 - 1843
Used Form: John Samuel Murray
Used Form: John Murray, the second

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Travel Elizabeth Rigby
Her friend and publisher, the elder John Murray , had died the previous year.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
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Textual Production Maria Callcott
MC based her travel writings on diaries written at the time. When Rosamund Brunel Gotch published her biography in 1937, the manuscripts of MC 's early journals had only recently come to light. Gotch printed...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
Textual Production Mary Shelley
For her part she offered Godwin information about European countries for his novels, pointed him to useful books which she had reviewed, and provided him with a spark when he had writer's block. She offered...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Mary Somerville
John Murray of London published Mechanism of the Heavens, MS 's popular rendering of Pierre Simon Laplace 's seminal astronomical text Méchanique Céleste.
An e-text of this book, with an appendix of some...
Reception Harriet Lee
This tale reached its fifth edition independently of the other Tales in 1823, when it appeared as a kind of trailer to John Murray 's projected edition of the whole series. Byron recognised Kruitzner as...
Reception Mary Somerville
MS 's publisher, John Murray , commissioned Thomas Phillips to paint her portrait; this picture now hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16.
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Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff.
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Publishing 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...
Publishing Mary Maria Colling
The full title reads Fables and other Pieces in Verse . . . With some account of the author, in letters to Robert Southey Esq. . . . by Mrs. Bray. The dedicatory poem...
Publishing Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Byron (an admirer of Montagu's writing) came on some of her letters to Algarotti in Venice in the early nineteenth century, but his efforts to get John Murray to publish them came to nothing. A...
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
Her father had become so irritated with Rowland Hunter that he urged her to take the Memoirs to John Murray , but she did not do this. She earned seven hundred and fifty pounds from...
Publishing Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Following her well-publicised battles first with Colburn and then with Saunders and Otley , Morgan got Thomas Moore to sound out John Murray about taking her on. She had a plan to follow her Life...
Publishing Susan Ferrier
SF only published under the condition that she remained anonymous, hiding her authorship for fear that she would be condemned as unladylike. If I was suspected of being accessory to such foul deeds my brothers...
Publishing Felicia Hemans
FH 's The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy, A Poem was published as by a Lady; for the second, revised, edition she switched to John Murray as her publisher.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
Hemans, Felicia. The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy. W. Baxter.

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February 1809: The Quarterly Review was founded....

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February 1809

The Quarterly Review was founded.

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