John Murray

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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, pp. 1-18.
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Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
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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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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.
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Publishing Mary Renault
With its British publication in February 1979, she moved from Allen Lane to a publishing firm new for her, John Murray . She valued them for having been Byron's publishers, and for being a family...
Publishing Lucie Duff Gordon
LDG began work on her next translation, Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials, in August 1845, shortly after the death of her infant son. There was a tremendous amount of work involved in condensing the...
Publishing Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ switched to the publisher John Murray for her fourth novel, The Householder, which was also the first for which she wrote a screenplay (for a film which appeared in 1963).
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan.
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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 Anna Eliza Bray
Publisher John Murray rejected the manuscript, but it was soon accepted by Longmans , with an agreement that gave the author and her husband half the profits after publishing expenses were covered. Longmans then delayed...
Publishing Fanny Kemble
John Murray bought the publication rights for the play for £450.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
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He presented a copy of the eighth edition (which appeared before the end of the year) to the Countess Guiccioli on her visit...
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...
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 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 Jane Austen
JA wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child.
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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She published it as a Lady: the only one issued this way, since later...
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 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...

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Somerville, Mary. Physical Geography. John Murray, 1848.
Southey, Robert, and John Jones. “Introduction, with Observations on Uneducated Poets”. Attempts in Verse, by John Jones, an Old Servant, John Murray, 1831.
Southey, Robert. The Life of Nelson. John Murray, 1813.
Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray, 1906.
Stothard, Charles Alfred. The Monumental Effigies of Great Britian. Editors Bray, Anna Eliza and Alfred Kempe, John Murray, 1832.
Sullivan, Arabella Jane. Tales of the Peerage, and the Peasantry. Editor Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre, John Murray, 1835.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. Selections from the dramas of Goethe and Schiller. Translator Swanwick, Anna, John Murray, 1843.
Trollope, Frances. Belgium and Western Germany in 1833. John Murray, 1834.
Tynan, Katharine. Lord Edward. John Murray, 1916.
Ward, Mary Augusta. Marcella. John Murray, 1911.
Ward, Mary Augusta. Miss Bretherton. John Murray, 1911.
Ward, Mary Augusta. Robert Elsmere. John Murray, 1911.
Ward, Mary Augusta. Sir George Tressady. John Murray, 1911.
Ward, Mary Augusta, and Theodore Roosevelt. Towards the Goal. John Murray, 1917.
Wellesley, Dorothy. Poems. John Murray, 1920.
Whipple, Dorothy. Because of the Lockwoods. John Murray, 1949.
Whipple, Dorothy. Every Good Deed. John Murray, 1946.
Whipple, Dorothy. Greenbanks. John Murray, 1932.
Whipple, Dorothy. High Wages. John Murray, 1930, p. 316 pp.
Whipple, Dorothy. Someone at a Distance. John Murray, 1953.
Whipple, Dorothy. The Priory. John Murray, 1939.
Whipple, Dorothy. They Knew Mr. Knight. John Murray, 1934.
Whipple, Dorothy. They Were Sisters. John Murray, 1943.
Wortley, Violet Stuart et al. A Prime Minister and his Son. John Murray, 1925.