John Murray

She kept the copyright in her own hands, rejecting Egerton 's offer for it—probably the lowish one of £150. He produced this novel rather cheaply, on thinner paper with more lines to the page than...

After this JA began negotiations with Murray through her brother Henry. Murray offered £450 for the combined copyrights of Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Emma. This offer was indignantly rejected, though...

James Stanier Clarke , the prince's librarian, had issued a somewhat obliquely-worded invitation to dedicate a future work to the prince. Emma was duly dedicated to him, albeit succinctly. Austen requested her new publisher, John Murray

The volume also included her brother Henry's Biographical Notice. Murray published a cheaply-produced edition of 1,750 copies, retailing at £1.4s. Though the edition did not sell out, it earned JA 's estate £518.6s.5d.

John Murray was apparently planning a collected edition of JA 's novels in 1831, when Cassandra Austen wrote on 20 May with detailed queries about it, but the project did not go through. A year...

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...

Two years after her second marriage, BBBD had privately printed, again through John Murray , two volumes of Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems.

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 ...

Translations from Petrarch 's sonnets by BBBD , collected in Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems, 1821, also appeared in a different form the same year: Ugo Foscolo reprinted them at the end of his...