John Murray

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Publishing Lucie Duff Gordon
Though LDG only earned a £50 translation fee from her publisher, John Murray , her work was very successful and ran to three editions before the year's end.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton.
124
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.
184, 195-6
Northwestern University Press released another edition...
Publishing Margaret Holford
The poem was part-finished at the beginning of the year.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
2: 545, 546
Like Holford's previous book it is dedicated to her mother , from whom, she writes, she imbibed and inherited the taste which...
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.
10-11
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
83
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 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.
52
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6
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 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.
238-9
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 Fanny Kemble
John Murray bought the publication rights for the play for £450.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
48
He presented a copy of the eighth edition (which appeared before the end of the year) to the Countess Guiccioli on her visit...
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Rigby
The preface notes that the work was ready for publication in the Spring, but delayed by the publisher 's wish, on account of the agitated state of the political atmosphere.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Mrs. Grote. John Murray.
vi
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