Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
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Friends, Associates
Freya Stark
Back from the Middle East, FS
began to write about her experiences abroad: starting in November 1928, she published short pieces in Cornhill Magazine, then edited by Leonard Huxley
. Through Huxley she met...
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.
The publication of both Seen in the Hadhramaut and A Winter in Arabia was delayed by disagreements between Stark and her publisher
about her negative written treatment of prominent archaeologist Gertrude Caton-Thompson
, with whom...
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Freya Stark
This volume covers the years 1928-33, during which FS
established her reputation both as a traveller (winning the Back Memorial Grant of the Royal Geographical Society
and the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society
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Freya Stark
Because John Murray
was reluctant to publish what he considered would be a non-commercial venture, FS
sold paintings and jewelry in order to self-publish eight volumes of her letters. Lucy Moorehead
agreed to be editor...
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Freya Stark
Through John Murray
, FS
published an account of her initial impressions of her first trip to the Middle East in Letters from Syria.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
363
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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.
GS
's De l'Allemagne (Germany), a work on German culture and politics suppressed by Napoleon
, was finally published by John Murray
at London, from a copy of proofs which she had hidden.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg.
69-70, 75
Lessenich, Rolf. “Literary Views of English Rhine Romanticism 1760-1860”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
10
, No. 4, pp. 480-18.
490
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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Germaine de Staël
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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Mary Somerville
John Murray
of London published MS
's most successful book, an explanatory textbook in two volumes entitled Physical Geography.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
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Mary Somerville
John Murray
published Somerville's posthumous autobiography, Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
, with Selections from her Correspondence.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16.
215
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff.
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Mary Somerville
MS
was a considerable time employed in writing this book,
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers.
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and sent it to Brougham for appraisal with some anxiety. Brougham deemed it too advanced to be accessible to his intended public readership, and...
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Mary Somerville
As was normal practice for scientific texts at the time, MS
had canvassed a number of her learned friends for aid in preparing and proofreading her manuscript. Lord Brougham
, Michael Faraday
, James Forbes
Sutherland, Kathryn. “Jane Austen’s Dealings with John Murray and his Firm”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
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