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...
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
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
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
Harriet Martineau
She had started it on her previous birthday, 12 June 1838. John Murray
had solicited a novel from her—which would have been the first his firm
had published since Scott
—only to reject it when...
Publishing
Harriet Martineau
Again John Murray
reneged, at an advanced stage, on the arrangement for his firm
to publish the book, so HM
turned to Moxon
. Its earnings during the first year following publication paid for her...
Textual Production
Jane Marcet
A three-volume anonymous work appeared from John Murray
, Bertha's Visit to her Uncle in England: it is often attributed to JM
, but is in fact by Harriet Beaufort
, whose sister was...
Literary responses
Sarah Macnaughtan
The book's publisher, John Murray
, praised it in an advertisement in the English Review: This book, written with the brightness and humour which characterizes Miss Macnaughtan's works, will strongly appeal to all who...
Textual Production
Sarah Macnaughtan
John Murray
published a novel by SM
, The Andersons, whose first appearance in October was followed by further impressions in November and December.
Through John Murray
, SM
's My War Experiences was published posthumously by her niece Betty Keays-Young
, or Mrs. Lionel Salmon as she is called on the title-page.
It was published by W. Heinemann
, with a reissue by John Murray
in the same year. Cheap, popular editions were issued by T. Nelson and Sons
in 1909, 1910, and 1930.