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Literary responses | Jane Austen | Emma received eight reviews in English: more than any other Austen novel. Murray
sounded apologetic as he invited Walter Scott to review it (It wants incident and romance does it not?). Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking. 252 |
Publishing | Sarah Austin | SA
translated Friedrich von Raumer
's England in 1835 (1836) to support her family during their time in Boulogne. Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press. 69 |
Literary responses | Sarah Austin | Her translations of Ranke
's works were praised by Henry Hart Milman
, Dean of St Paul's, and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | This brief marriage brought Anna Eliza a number of literary friendships: with Sir Walter Scott
, Amelia Opie
, Letitia Elizabeth Landon
, John Murray
, Robert Southey
, and later with Southey's second wife,... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | Owing to her nervousness and delicate health AEB
did not socialize much; her literary friends were few though deeply valued, including L. E. L.
, John Murray
, Owen Rees
, and Anna Maria Hall |
Publishing | Anna Eliza Bray | In a letter dated February 1831, Southey suggested that she should create a good specimen of local history. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 52 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | During the early years of her first marriage, between her time in India and in Italy, Maria Graham (later MC
) met Jane Marcet
and the publisher John Murray
. Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray. 153-4, 166 |
Employer | Maria Callcott | After her stint as royal governess in Brazil, which lasted about a year, Maria Graham (later MC
) continued to work, whether or not she actually needed the money. She became a reader of... |
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... |
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 | 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 | 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... |
Occupation | George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron | In Venice he discovered surviving letters from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
to Francesco Algarotti
, and wrote to his publisher, John Murray
, about getting them into print. Murray, however, did not respond. Winch, Alison. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Byronic Hero”. Pride and Prejudices: Women’s Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century. |
Publishing | Felicia Hemans | She wrote under the impression that the topic of the Elgin Marbles (ancient Greek carvings and statues removed from the Parthenon in Athens to England by Lord Elgin
, and first exhibited in London in... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Nevertheless, the Romantic Circles Electronic Edition of this poem edited by Nanora Sweet
and Barbara Taylor
represents it as a much more open and indeed sceptical text than FH
's own comment suggests, and subtitles... |
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