The book was translated into French and was pirated in the U.S. in 1865 as Georgy Sandon; or , A Lost Love, AO
's original choice of title. One American edition appeared with the...
Publishing
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Two years after her second marriage, BBBD
had privately printed, again through John Murray
, two volumes of Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems.
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre,. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray.
1: prelims
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Freya Stark
FS
published, with John Murray
, East is West. In the United StatesAlfred A. Knopf
published this book as The Arab Island: The Middle East, 1939-1943.
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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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Elizabeth De la Pasture
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...
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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.
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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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.
Somerville, Mary. Physical Geography. John Murray, 1848.
Southey, Robert, and John Jones. “Introduction, with Observations on Uneducated Poets”. Attempts in Verse, by John Jones, an Old Servant, John Murray, 1831.
Southey, Robert. The Life of Nelson. John Murray, 1813.
Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray, 1906.
Stothard, Charles Alfred. The Monumental Effigies of Great Britian. Editors Bray, Anna Eliza and Alfred Kempe, John Murray, 1832.
Sullivan, Arabella Jane. Tales of the Peerage, and the Peasantry. Editor Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre, John Murray, 1835.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. Selections from the dramas of Goethe and Schiller. Translator Swanwick, Anna, John Murray, 1843.
Trollope, Frances. Belgium and Western Germany in 1833. John Murray, 1834.
Tynan, Katharine. Lord Edward. John Murray, 1916.
Ward, Mary Augusta. Marcella. John Murray, 1911.
Ward, Mary Augusta. Miss Bretherton. John Murray, 1911.
Ward, Mary Augusta. Robert Elsmere. John Murray, 1911.
Ward, Mary Augusta. Sir George Tressady. John Murray, 1911.
Ward, Mary Augusta, and Theodore Roosevelt. Towards the Goal. John Murray, 1917.
Wellesley, Dorothy. Poems. John Murray, 1920.
Whipple, Dorothy. Because of the Lockwoods. John Murray, 1949.
Whipple, Dorothy. Every Good Deed. John Murray, 1946.
Whipple, Dorothy. Greenbanks. John Murray, 1932.
Whipple, Dorothy. High Wages. John Murray, 1930, p. 316 pp.
Whipple, Dorothy. Someone at a Distance. John Murray, 1953.
Whipple, Dorothy. The Priory. John Murray, 1939.
Whipple, Dorothy. They Knew Mr. Knight. John Murray, 1934.
Whipple, Dorothy. They Were Sisters. John Murray, 1943.
Wortley, Violet Stuart et al. A Prime Minister and his Son. John Murray, 1925.
