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
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.
147
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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...
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...
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Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Two years after her second marriage, BBBD
had privately printed, again through John Murray
, two volumes of Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems.
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre,. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray.
1: prelims
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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...
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Dorothy Whipple
She decided to write this one in preference to a different potential novel which was also pressing to be written. She made two false starts before she could feel the story was launched. For use...
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Isabella Bird
IB
submitted to her publisher
a sizable part of the manuscript of what would become The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands.
Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray.
80-2
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 29, 33
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Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan
, Heinemann
(where the managing director told her to bring it back if...
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Felicia Hemans
By June 1821 FH
had begun working on a five-act tragedy, The Vespers of Palermo. John Murray
gave her 200 guineas for the copyright in November 1823 .
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315.
Her finished manuscript was submitted to London publisher John Murray
, who had published other travel writers. Murray
accepted this book, altered its title from the proposed The Car and the Steamboat to The Englishwoman...
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Texts
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Shards of Memory. John Murray, 1995.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. The Householder. John Murray, 1960.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Three Continents. John Murray, 1987.
Johnson, Samuel. Sir Joshua’s Nephew. Editor Radcliffe, Susan M., John Murray, 1930.
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Ada Reis. John Murray, 1823.
Lawless, Emily, and Shan Fadh Bullock. The Race of Castlebar. John Murray, 1913.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
Loudon, Jane. Botany for Ladies. John Murray, 1842.
Macaulay, Rose. Abbots Verney. John Murray, 1906.
Macaulay, Rose. The Furnace. John Murray, 1907.
Macaulay, Rose. Views and Vagabonds. John Murray, 1912.
Macnaughtan, Sarah. My War Experiences in Two Continents. Editor Keays-Young, Betty, John Murray, 1919.
Macnaughtan, Sarah. Us Four. John Murray, 1909.
Mango, Andrew. Atatürk. John Murray, 1999.
Mary, Countess Cowper,. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray, 1864.
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
Meredith, Louisa Anne. My Home in Tasmania. John Murray, 1852.
Meredith, Louisa Anne. Notes and Sketches of New South Wales. John Murray, 1844.
Miller, Betty. Robert Browning: A Portrait. John Murray, 1952.
Murphy, Dervla. A Place Apart. John Murray, 1978.
Murphy, Dervla. Full Tilt. John Murray, 1965.
Murphy, Dervla. In Ethiopia with a Mule. John Murray, 1968.
Murphy, Dervla. Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals. John Murray, 2006.