The volume cost nine shillings and sixpence, and when the edition of 1,000 sold out, FH
's share of the profits split with John Murray
was £66. According to recent editors of the text, the...
Publishing
Dorothy Whipple
She decided to write this one in preference to a different potential novel which was also pressing to be written. She made two false starts before she could feel the story was launched. For use...
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.
80-2
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 29, 33
Publishing
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan
, Heinemann
(where the managing director told her to bring it back if...
Publishing
Felicia Hemans
By June 1821 FH
had begun working on a five-act tragedy, The Vespers of Palermo. John Murray
gave her 200 guineas for the copyright in November 1823 .
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315.
Her finished manuscript was submitted to London publisher John Murray
, who had published other travel writers. Murray
accepted this book, altered its title from the proposed The Car and the Steamboat to The Englishwoman...
Publishing
Harriette Wilson
In about 1822 HW
composed a work she called Sketches in the Round Room at the Opera House (a kind of dry run for her Memoirs), which depicts her former lovers under disguised names:...
Publishing
Sarah Macnaughtan
It was published by W. Heinemann
, with a reissue by John Murray
in the same year. Cheap, popular editions were issued by T. Nelson and Sons
in 1909, 1910, and 1930.
Peter's Mother was first adapted for the stage, as a three-act comedy which reached print in 1910 and which meanwhile, in 1906, had a royal command performance at the royal estate of Sandringham in Norfolk...
Publishing
Margaret Holford
The poem was part-finished at the beginning of the year.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
2: 545, 546
Like Holford's previous book it is dedicated to her mother
, from whom, she writes, she imbibed and inherited the taste which...
She sent the manuscript to Robert Southey
, hoping the Poet Laureate would provide some instruction or advice on publication. He tried to secure Bowles a publisher but the one he tried first, John Murray
Publishing
Lucie Duff Gordon
Though LDG
only earned a £50 translation fee from her publisher, John Murray
, her work was very successful and ran to three editions before the year's end.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton.
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Publishing
Freya Stark
The interest of another publisher in FS
's writing, together with excellent sales, prompted John Murray
to renegotiate her royalties and to reprint Baghdad Sketches in 1937.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
Murphy, Dervla. South from the Limpopo. John Murray, 1997.
Murphy, Dervla. Through Siberia by Accident. John Murray, 2005.
Panter-Downes, Mollie. Storm Bird. John Murray, 1929.
Panter-Downes, Mollie. The Shoreless Sea. John Murray, 1923.
Peck, Winifred. Twelve Birthdays. John Murray, 1918.
Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, 1930, p. various pages.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. The Arctic Expeditions. John Murray, 1818.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. The Veils. John Murray, 1815.
Renault, Mary. Funeral Games. John Murray, 1981.
Ridler, Anne. Olive Willis and Downe House. John Murray, 1967.
Rigby, Elizabeth. A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic. John Murray, 1841.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Livonian Tales. John Murray, 1846.
Rigby, Elizabeth, and Charles Lock Eastlake. “Memoir”. Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts: Second Series, John Murray, 1870, pp. 1-196.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Mrs. Grote. John Murray, 1880.
Brandl, Alois. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School. Translator Rigby, Elizabeth, John Murray, 1887.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray, 1919.
Roberts, Brian. Ladies in the Veld. John Murray, 1965.
Rose, George Henry, editor. Papers of the Earls of Marchmont. John Murray, 1831.
Rose, George Henry. “The Preface and The Defence of Patrick Earl of Marchmont”. A Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont, in the possession of the Right Hon. Sir George Henry Rose, John Murray, 1831, p. 1: vii - cxxxii.
Rosen, Michael. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story. John Murray, 2013.
Ross, Janet. Three Generations of Englishwomen. John Murray, 1888.
Routley, Erik. Hymns and Human Life. John Murray, 1959.
Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace,. Mechanism of the Heavens. Translator Somerville, Mary, John Murray, 1831.
Somerville, Mary. On Molecular and Microscopic Science. John Murray, 1869.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, John Murray, 1873.