John Murray

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Publishing 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...
Publishing 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...
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 Augusta Gregory
It was published in Dublin by Hodges, Figgis , and in London by John Murray .
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston, 1982.
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It was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Gregory, Augusta. Poets and Dreamers. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
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, 1994.
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Publishing 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...
Publishing 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...
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.
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Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
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Publishing Augusta Gregory
It appeared in a limited edition of 200 copies.
Smythe, Colin et al., editors. “Chronology”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 1-12.
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The following year it was published by John Murray in London and Scribner in New York.
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston, 1982.
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The subtitle downplays AG 's role in...
Publishing Harriet Lee
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...
Publishing Anna Swanwick
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...
Publishing Mary Russell Mitford
MRM was working on this poem by July 1810.
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.
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She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...
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.
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, 31 Mar. 2012.
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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, 1849.
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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.