John Murray

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Freya Stark
Back from the Middle East, FS began to write about her experiences abroad: starting in November 1928, she published short pieces in Cornhill Magazine, then edited by Leonard Huxley . Through Huxley she met...
Intertextuality and Influence Freya Stark
The publication of both Seen in the Hadhramaut and A Winter in Arabia was delayed by disagreements between Stark and her publisher about her negative written treatment of prominent archaeologist Gertrude Caton-Thompson , with whom...
Literary responses Dorothy Whipple
A reader at Curtis Brown praised DW 's very shrewd and natural gift of depicting her middle-class characters, while Lord Gorell at John Murray wrote: Much her best work and the former was good.
qtd. in
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
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Literary responses Felicia Hemans
Appreciation of FH was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott and Byron , in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray , her own publisher)...
Literary responses Jane Austen
William Gifford , editor of the Quarterly Review and a regular reader and advisor on manuscripts for John Murray , first read Pride and Prejudice in November 1814 and reported it to be really a...
Literary responses Sarah Macnaughtan
The book's publisher, John Murray , praised it in an advertisement in the English Review: This book, written with the brightness and humour which characterizes Miss Macnaughtan's works, will strongly appeal to all who...
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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Macaulay's response to History of the Popes was: Of this translation we...
Material Conditions of Writing George Paston
GP had discovered these letters—written by, among others, Elizabeth Pigot , Lady Caroline Lamb , Augusta Leigh , Lady Melbourne , Annabella Milbanke , Claire Clairmont , and the actresses Susan Boyce and Mrs Spencer...
Material Conditions of Writing Ann Bridge
Susan Lowndes (daughter of novelist Marie Belloc Lowndes and so grand-daughter of suffragist Bessie Rayner Parkes ) was an old friend of AB and was resident in Portugal with her Portuguese husband. The two of...
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Rigby
The preface notes that the work was ready for publication in the Spring, but delayed by the publisher 's wish, on account of the agitated state of the political atmosphere.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Mrs. Grote. John Murray, 1880.
vi
This presumably refers to...
Publishing Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ switched to the publisher John Murray for her fourth novel, The Householder, which was also the first for which she wrote a screenplay (for a film which appeared in 1963).
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989.
238-9
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 Germaine de Staël
GS left two unfinished works at her death which were published posthumously. Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la révolution françoise, 1817, appeared in English as Considerations on the Principal Events of the French...
Publishing Isabella Bird
IB submitted to her publisher a sizable part of the manuscript of what would become The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands.
Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray, 1906.
80-2
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 29, 33
Publishing Fanny Kemble
John Murray bought the publication rights for the play for £450.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
48
He presented a copy of the eighth edition (which appeared before the end of the year) to the Countess Guiccioli on her visit...

Timeline

By 16 October 1768: The long-lived publishing house of John Murray...

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By 16 October 1768

The long-lived publishing house of John Murray was founded, after John Murray I , born John McMurray, came south to London from Edinburgh; it survived until May 2002.
Murray, John R. “Going Strong”. The Author, Vol.
cxi
, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2000, pp. 182-4.
182
Abbott, John L. “Review of William Zachs, The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, 1998”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
12
, 2001, pp. 495-03.
497, 501

January 1783: The publishing house of John Murray launched...

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January 1783

The publishing house of John Murray launched The English Review of Literature, Science, Discoveries, Inventions, and Practical Controversies and Contests; with varying subtitles it ran until 1796.
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.
Abbott, John L. “Review of William Zachs, The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, 1998”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
12
, 2001, pp. 495-03.
501-2

1811: Publisher John Murray in London began working...

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1811

Publisher John Murray in London began working with William Blackwood in Edinburgh.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
154: 17

1853: Londoner Isabella Rushton Preston published...

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1853

Londoner Isabella Rushton Preston published anonymously, through John Murray , her Handbook of Familiar Quotations from English Authors. This became a leading source for the better-known, American Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1855.
Shapiro, Fred R. “Anonymous was a Woman”. Yale Alumni Magazine, Jan.–Feb. 2011.

1917: John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird...

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1917

John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird and later Freya Stark ) took over Smith, Elder (publishers of Charlotte Brontë , Charlotte Chanter , and Queen Victoria ).
Murray, John R. “Going Strong”. The Author, Vol.
cxi
, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2000, pp. 182-4.
183

By 11 May 2002: John Murray, publishers of Austen and Byron...

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By 11 May 2002

John Murray , publishers of Austen and Byron among many others, and one of the few independent publishers remaining after rapid change in the industry, sold out to bookselling chain W. H. Smith .
Reynolds, Nigel. Last chapter as oldest publisher is bought out,, 11 May 2002. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/11/nmurr11.xml.

Texts

Monthly Review, 1900-1907. John Murray, 1-27.
Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey; and, Persuasion. John Murray, 1818.
Austen, Jane. Emma. 1st ed., John Murray.
Raumer, Friedrich von. England in 1835. Translators Austin, Sarah and Hannibal Evans Lloyd, John Murray, 1836.
Fragments from German Prose Writers. Translator Austin, Sarah, John Murray, 1841.
Austin, Sarah. On National Education. John Murray, 1839.
Austin, John, 1613 - 1669. “Preface”. The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, edited by Sarah Austin, John Murray, 1861.
Ranke, Leopold von. The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Translator Austin, Sarah, John Murray, 1840, 3 vols.
Beaufort, Harriet. Bertha’s Visit to her Uncle in England. John Murray, 1830, 3 vols.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda, and Sarah Grand. Mid-Victorian Memories. John Murray, 1919, p. xvi; 165 pp.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft. John Murray, 1988.
Bird, Isabella. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan. John Murray, 1891.
Bird, Isabella. Korea and Her Neighbours. John Murray, 1898, 2 vols.
Bird, Isabella. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither. John Murray, 1883.
Bird, Isabella. The Hawaiian Archipelago. John Murray, 1875.
Bird, Isabella. The Yangtze Valley and Beyond. John Murray, 1899.
Bird, Isabella. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. John Murray, 1880, 2 vols.
Blanch, Lesley. Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star: Travels and Travellers. John Murray, 1963.
Boswell, James, 1740 - 1795. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Editor Croker, John Wilson, New Edition, Vol.
5 vols
, John Murray, 1831.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editors Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund and Lady Muriel Sarah Boyle, John Murray, 1901.
Bray, Anna Eliza. A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy. John Murray, 1836, 3 vols.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford. Editor Miller, Betty, John Murray, 1954.
Bullock, William. Six Months’ Residence and Travels in Mexico. John Murray, 1824.
Burgon, John William. The Portrait of a Christian Gentleman. 2nd ed., John Murray, 1859.
Burton, Hester. Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891. John Murray, 1949.