John Murray

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Caroline Norton
CN 's poem A Voice from the Factories was accepted for publication by John Murray ; it appeared anonymously that year.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
147
Publishing Elizabeth Rigby
She translated many works, though her nephew Charles Eastlake Smith wrongly credits her with Franz Kugler 's Handbook of Painting: The Schools of Painting in Italy (two volumes, 1851), which her husband edited. Most library...
Publishing Rose Macaulay
RM 's previous publisher, John MurrayJohn Murray , was astonished to learn of her win: she had not submitted the manuscript to him. However, he wrote her a congratulatory note, which he concluded: If at any...
Publishing Jane Austen
JA wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child.
qtd. in
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
285
She published it as a Lady: the only one issued this way, since later...
Publishing Elizabeth Rigby
The book's many illustrations were by her own hand. Publisher John Murray paid her £100 for the copyright. A second edition appeared with the title Letters from the Shores of the Baltic. This text...
Publishing Felicia Hemans
Murray paid her £70 for the copyright.
Feldman, Paula R. “The Poet and the Profits: Felicia Hemans and the Literary Marketplace”. Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol.
46
, 1997, pp. 148-76.
152
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 Anne Ogle
The book was translated into French and was pirated in the U.S. in 1865 as Georgy Sandon; or , A Lost Love, AO 's original choice of title. One American edition appeared with the...
Publishing Lady Charlotte Bury
It is in large format from John Murray , illustrated with engravings from drawings by the author's late husband , and dedicated to the queen . Subscribers included most of the British royal family, the...
Publishing Jane Austen
She kept the copyright in her own hands, rejecting Egerton 's offer for it—probably the lowish one of £150. He produced this novel rather cheaply, on thinner paper with more lines to the page than...
Publishing Felicia Hemans
The volume cost nine shillings and sixpence, and when the edition of 1,000 sold out, FH 's share of the profits split with John Murray was £66. According to recent editors of the text, the...
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 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, 1999.
184, 195-6
Northwestern University Press released another edition...
Publishing Jane Austen
After this JA began negotiations with Murray through her brother Henry. Murray offered £450 for the combined copyrights of Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Emma. This offer was indignantly rejected, though...

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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.