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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 | 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 | 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. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 23 |
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. |
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 | 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... |
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 | Germaine de Staël | GS
's De l'Allemagne (Germany), a work on German culture and politics suppressed by Napoleon
, was finally published by John Murray
at London, from a copy of proofs which she had hidden. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985. 69-70, 75 Lessenich, Rolf. “Literary Views of English Rhine Romanticism 1760-1860”. European Romantic Review, No. 4, pp. 480 -18. 490 Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 138 |
Publishing | Dorothy Whipple | DW
's first story written at and about Barton Seagrave, the place to which she and her husband retired, was about a pretty girl she had watched from her window coping lightly with marriage... |
Publishing | Rose Macaulay | This was her last novel published by John Murray
. |
Publishing | Jane Austen | James Stanier Clarke
, the prince's librarian, had issued a somewhat obliquely-worded invitation to dedicate a future work to the prince. Emma was duly dedicated to him, albeit succinctly. Austen requested her new publisher, John Murray |
Publishing | Dervla Murphy | Thinking of her father's years of hoping and struggling to publish his novels, DM
said she felt her life had been chosen as the medium through which all the strivings of generations of scribbling Murphys... |