John Murray

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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 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 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.
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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 Augusta Gregory
It appeared in a limited edition of 200 copies.
Smythe, Colin et al., editors. “Chronology”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, 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.
23
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 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...
Publishing 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CADS was bitterly disappointed when both Heinemann and John Murray rejected her Elizabethan novel, Ulalia; it remained unpublished, but she always considered it one of her best works.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.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Publishing 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.
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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.
356
Biographer Sarah Lefanu believes that she worked off in this novel some of her turbulent emotions about the close...
Publishing Jane Austen
James Stanier Clarke , the prince's librarian, had issued a somewhat obliquely-worded invitation to dedicate a future work to the prince. Emma was duly dedicated to him, albeit succinctly. Austen requested her new publisher, 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...
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.
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Lessenich, Rolf. “Literary Views of English Rhine Romanticism 1760-1860”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 4, pp. 480-18.
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Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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Publishing Dorothy Whipple
DW 's first story written at and about Barton Seagrave, the place to which she and her husband retired, was about a pretty girl she had watched from her window coping lightly with marriage...
Publishing Rose Macaulay
This was her last novel published by John Murray .
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.
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Gregory, Sir William Henry. Sir William Gregory. Editor Gregory, Augusta, John Murray, 1894.
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, John Murray, 1950.
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1853-1891. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 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. 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.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. How I Became a Holy Mother, and Other Stories. John Murray, 1976.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. In Search of Love and Beauty. John Murray, 1983.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Like Birds, Like Fishes, and Other Stories. John Murray, 1963.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Poet and Dancer. John Murray, 1993.