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...
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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, 1906.
80-2
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 29, 33
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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...
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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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Harriet Martineau
Again John Murray
reneged, at an advanced stage, on the arrangement for his firm
to publish the book, so HM
turned to Moxon
. Its earnings during the first year following publication paid for her...
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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...
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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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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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Lady Caroline Lamb
According to her own account, LCL
wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence...
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Louisa Anne Meredith
This book was one of Murray
's Home and Colonial Library series.
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.
In the preface LAM
explains that her motive for writing was to convey to her friends in England her impressions of the nature...
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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, 1994.
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Lady Caroline Lamb
An odd spin-off from LCL
's desire to make herself into a professional writer was her project for a pocket diary or almanac. These ephemeral publications were repositories of useful information of many kinds as...
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Naomi Mitchison
NM
says this book came out at white heat and, what is more, I wrote all the best bits, the juicy bits, first, all the bits that were most exciting and satisfying to write, like...
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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
Gregory, Augusta. Poets and Dreamers. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
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Bury, Lady Charlotte, and Edward John Bury. The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany. John Murray, 1833.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. Letters and Journals of Lord Byron. Editor Moore, Thomas, John Murray, 1830, 2 vols.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Welsh Carlyle: Letters to Her Family, 1839-1863. Editor Huxley, Leonard, John Murray, 1924.
Chapone, Hester Mulso. The Posthumous Works of Mrs. Chapone. John Murray, 1807, 2 vols.
Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray, 1896.
Cholmondeley, Mary. The Romance of His Life. John Murray, 1921.
Cholmondeley, Mary. Under One Roof. John Murray, 1918.
Cholmondeley, Mary. “Votes for Men”. The Romance of His Life, John Murray, 1921, pp. 200-15.
Climenson, Emily J., and Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Bluestockings. Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761. John Murray, 1906, 2 vols.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
Cowper, Mary, Countess. “Introduction”. Diary, edited by Charles Spencer Cowper, John Murray, 1864, p. v - xvi.
Cowper, Mary, Countess. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray, 1864.
Crawford, Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, twenty-fifth Earl of. Lives of the Lindsays. 2nd ed., John Murray, 1858, 3 vols.
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821, 2 vols.
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Ina. John Murray, 1815.
Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. John Murray, 1859.
Disraeli, Benjamin. Lord Beaconsfield’s Correspondence With His Sister 1832-1852. John Murray, 1886.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
Ford, Isabella Ormston. Miss Blake of Monkshalton. John Murray, 1890.
Frere, Bartle et al. “Introduction”. Old Deccan Days, 3rd edition, Revised, John Murray, 1881, p. ix - xvi.
Frere, Mary et al. Old Deccan Days. John Murray, 1868.
Frere, Mary et al. Old Deccan Days. 3rd edition, Revised, John Murray, 1881.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. John Franklin’s Bride. Editor Gell, Edith M., First, John Murray, 1930.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.