John Murray

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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 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 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 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...
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
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
Northwestern University Press released another edition...
Publishing Caroline Bowles
It featured coloured engravings by George Cruikshank , done from Bowles's own sketches. John Murray rejected this poem for publication. Bowles is often not catalogued as its author.
Blain, Virginia. “Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey Negotiates Blackwoods 1820-1847”. Victorian Journalism, edited by Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, Queensland University Press, pp. 1-18.
10-11
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
83
Publishing Mary Shelley
The firm of John Murray declined to publish Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus, which had been offered to them through H[orace] (or Horatio) Smith , a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley , the author 's husband.
Sutherland, Kathryn. “Jane Austen’s Dealings with John Murray and his Firm”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
52
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6
Publishing Mary Boyle
Privately printed, MB 's collection My Portrait Gallery, and Other Poems appeared; it could be obtained upon application to John Murray , publishers, for 7s 6d.
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.
Boyle, Mary. My Portrait Gallery, and Other Poems. Privately printed by Bradbury and Evans.
end page
Publishing Mary Renault
With its British publication in February 1979, she moved from Allen Lane to a publishing firm new for her, John Murray . She valued them for having been Byron's publishers, and for being a family...
Publishing Lucie Duff Gordon
LDG began work on her next translation, Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials, in August 1845, shortly after the death of her infant son. There was a tremendous amount of work involved in condensing the...

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford. Editor Miller, Betty, John Murray, 1954.
Bullock, William. Six Months’ Residence and Travels in Mexico. John Murray, 1824.
Burgon, John William. The Portrait of a Christian Gentleman. John Murray, 1859.
Burton, Hester. Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891. John Murray, 1949.
Bury, Lady Charlotte, and Edward John Bury. The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany. John Murray, 1833.
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.
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.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
Mary, Countess Cowper,. “Introduction”. Diary, edited by Charles Spencer Cowper, John Murray, 1864, p. v - xvi.
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. John Murray, 1881.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. John Franklin’s Bride. Editor Gell, Edith M., John Murray, 1930.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.
Gore, Catherine. The Bond. John Murray, 1824.
Gregory, Augusta. Cuchulain of Muirthemne. John Murray, 1902.
Gregory, Augusta. Gods and Fighting Men. John Murray, 1904.