John Murray

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...

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 . Then or later...

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...

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...

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,...

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

In a letter dated February 1831, Southey suggested that she should create a good specimen of local history. The resulting ninety-four letters, dedicated and addressed to Southey , were written between February 1832...

SA translated Friedrich von Raumer 's England in 1835 (1836) to support her family during their time in Boulogne. She was paid 100 guineas by publisher John Murray . During that same difficult...

Her translations of Ranke 's works were praised by Henry Hart Milman , Dean of St Paul's, and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay . Macaulay's response to History of the Popes was: Of this translation we...

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?). For...