John Murray

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Textual Production Freya Stark
With John Murray , FS published a collection of travel essays and meditations based on her horseback journey through Turkey: A Peak in Darien.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1982
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
363
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.
184, 195-6
Northwestern University Press released another edition...
Intertextuality and Influence Freya Stark
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...
Textual Features 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
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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
Publishing 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.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Germaine de Staël
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.
138
Publishing 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...
Textual Production 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.
214
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.
1088 (2 September 1848): 877-9
Textual Production 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.
194
Reception 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.
166
and sent it to Brougham for appraisal with some anxiety. Brougham deemed it too advanced to be accessible to his intended public readership, and...
Publishing 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
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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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.