Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray.
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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 | |
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. 49, 51, 69 The Vespers of... |
Publishing | Sarah Macnaughtan | The book saw many editions and reprints: from Dodd, Mead and Co.
(New York) and Heinemann in 1906 and 1907, John Murray
and T. Nelson and Sons
in 1908, Murray again in 1910, 1915, and... |
Publishing | Isabella Bird | 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 | 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... |
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. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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. 124 |
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. 184, 195-6 |
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 |
Publishing | Sarah Macnaughtan | Those who published the book in 1908 included Thomas Nelson and Sons
and John Murray
. E. P. Dutton
put out a US edition in July of that year. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Caroline Bowles | 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 |
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... |
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