She had made the first draft of these translations in 1835, to get over her loneliness after the marriage of her sister Mary. She revised them after her eight months in Berlin, and submitted...
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
1: 91
She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...
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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
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, 1998, pp. 1-18.
John Murray
paid HL
£300 in probably 1822 for the copyright of the Canterbury Tales; but he made a loss, for sales of his re-issue did not cover his printing expenses, let alone the...
Sutherland, Kathryn. “Jane Austen’s Dealings with John Murray and his Firm”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
52
, 31 Mar. 2012.
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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, 1849.
end page
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Augusta Gregory
The play was published in 1916 by John Murray
in London and by Putnam
's in New York.
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston, 1982.
26
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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...
Publishing
Rose Macaulay
She used the firm of John Murray
, who remained her regular publisher until 1912.
Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana, 1968.
356
Biographer Sarah Lefanu
believes that she worked off in this novel some of her turbulent emotions about the close...
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Rose Macaulay
This was her last novel published by John Murray
.
Publishing
Dervla Murphy
Thinking of her father's years of hoping and struggling to publish his novels, DM
said she felt her life had been chosen as the medium through which all the strivings of generations of scribbling Murphys...
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Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
CADS
was bitterly disappointed when both Heinemann
and John Murray
rejected her Elizabethan novel, Ulalia; it remained unpublished, but she always considered it one of her best works.
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth, 1987.
45
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
Publishing
Anna Eliza Bray
Publisher John Murray
rejected the manuscript, but it was soon accepted by Longmans
, with an agreement that gave the author and her husband half the profits after publishing expenses were covered. Longmans then delayed...
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Texts
Gregory, Augusta. Cuchulain of Muirthemne. John Murray, 1902.
Gregory, Augusta. Gods and Fighting Men. John Murray, 1904.
Gregory, Augusta. Hugh Lane’s Life and Achievement. John Murray, 1921.
Gregory, Sir William Henry. Sir William Gregory. Editor Gregory, Augusta, John Murray, 1894.
Grey, Barbarina Charlotte, Lady. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray, 1908.
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, Earl of, John Murray, 1950.
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1853-1891. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, Earl of, John Murray, 1952.
Hemans, Felicia. Modern Greece. John Murray, 1817.
Hemans, Felicia. Tales and Historic Scenes, in Verse. John Murray, 1819.
Hemans, Felicia. Tales and Historic Scenes, in Verse. John Murray, 1824.
Hemans, Felicia. The Forest Sanctuary. John Murray, 1825.
Hemans, Felicia. The Sceptic. John Murray, 1820.
Hemans, Felicia. The Siege of Valencia. John Murray, 1823.
Hemans, Felicia. The Vespers of Palermo. John Murray, 1823.
Herschel, Mary Cornwallis, editor. Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel. John Murray, 1876.
Holford, Margaret, the younger. Margaret of Anjou. John Murray, 1816.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. “Introduction”. Jane Welsh Carlyle: Letters to Her Family, 1839-1863, edited by Leonard Huxley, John Murray, 1924, p. v - xv.
Inchbald, Elizabeth, and Prince Hoare. “To the Artist”. The Artist, John Murray, 1810.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. A Backward Place. John Murray, 1965.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. A New Dominion. John Murray, 1972.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. A Stronger Climate: Nine Stories. John Murray, 1968.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. An Experience of India. John Murray, 1971.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. East into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi. John Murray, 1998.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Get Ready for Battle. John Murray, 1962.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Heat and Dust. John Murray, 1975.
