John Murray

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Textual Production Mary Cholmondeley
John Murray published two collections of both original and previously published short stories by MC : The Lowest Rung (1908, published in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Co. as The Hand on the...
Textual Features Maria Callcott
After her first return from Italy and again later in her life, Maria Graham (later MC ) did book reviews for the publisher John Murray . She expressed her admiration for contemporary literature: Coleridge ,...
Textual Production Maria Callcott
The plan was to follow the pattern of a John Murray top seller, A History of England, written by Elizabeth Penrose and published under the name of Mrs. Markham. Penrose, however, had followed...
Publishing Lady Charlotte Bury
It is in large format from John Murray , illustrated with engravings from drawings by the author's late husband , and dedicated to the queen . Subscribers included most of the British royal family, the...
Textual Production Frances Brooke
The full title was Elements of the History of England from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of George II; it bore her name. The Critical Review dealt with the earlier volumes...
Material Conditions of Writing Ann Bridge
Susan Lowndes (daughter of novelist Marie Belloc Lowndes and so grand-daughter of suffragist Bessie Rayner Parkes ) was an old friend of AB and was resident in Portugal with her Portuguese husband. The two of...
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 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 Caroline Bowles
She sent the manuscript to Robert Southey , hoping the Poet Laureate would provide some instruction or advice on publication. He tried to secure Bowles a publisher but the one he tried first, John Murray
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 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
Publishing Isabella Bird
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...
Textual Production Isabella Bird
Her papers, formerly held by the London publishing house of John Murray , are now in the National Library of Scotland . Both the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society hold some...
Publishing 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.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
This time her work was able to reach the stage (for just one night) because the second wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan , manager of Drury Lane, was her relation: Hester Jane née Ogle ...

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