John Middleton Murry

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Standard Name: Murry, John Middleton

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Brett
Despite the women's close rapport, Brett harboured a deep attraction to Murry , of which he was well aware. Hignett suggests that the two began a liaison sometime in the winter of 1920, five years...
Family and Intimate relationships Katherine Mansfield
Four days after her divorce from Bowden , KM married John Middleton Murry at the Register Office in South Kensington.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
412
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth von Arnim
In a letter to Dorothy Brett , Mansfield wrote: The point about [Elizabeth] is that one loves her and is proud of her. Oh, that's so important! To be proud of the person one loves...
Family and Intimate relationships Katherine Mansfield
As a result of her first book, KM met John Middleton Murry , an Oxford undergraduate from the lower middle class who was editing a magazine.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
134-5, 406
Family and Intimate relationships Katherine Mansfield
John Middleton Murry became KM 's lodger; soon afterwards he became her lover.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
406
Family and Intimate relationships Katherine Mansfield
KM left Murry , and London, for a visit to France and to Francis Carco , whom she had met through Murry. This affair proved fairly brief, but it began a pattern of leaving Murry...
Family and Intimate relationships Katherine Mansfield
On discovering that Murry and Brett were intimately involved, KM wrote, I am simply disgusted to my very soul.
qtd. in
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
318
Family and Intimate relationships Katherine Mansfield
KM sent an angry telegram to John Middleton Murry about his love for Princess Elizabeth Bibesco .
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
323
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Brett
Whilst studying at the Slade, Brett was pursued by her instructor Frederick Brown (co-founder of the New English Art Club ). After her graduation she brought Brown along to the Roman Camp to meet her...
Friends, Associates Katherine Mansfield
KM and John Middleton Murry visited D. H. Lawrence and Frieda at Broadstairs.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
407
Friends, Associates Dorothy Brett
The relationship between DB and Katherine Mansfield appears to have been one of mutual support, each engaging deeply with the other's work. Brett credits Mansfield with the beginning of her artistic career, She gave me...
Friends, Associates Katherine Mansfield
KM and John Middleton Murry visited the LawrencesFrieda Lawrence at Higher Tregerthen near Zennor in Cornwall.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
409
Friends, Associates Katherine Mansfield
KM and John Middleton Murry visited Garsington with Alvaro Guevara , who was known as Chile.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
411
Friends, Associates Katherine Mansfield
KM visited Garsington once again with Murry , who was ill from overwork.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
412
Friends, Associates Dora Carrington
Shortly after this they rented a house at 3 Gower Street: Carrington paid £9 to stay nine months in the attic, while Mansfield and her husband occupied the bottom floor, Brett the second, and...

Timeline

From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...

Building item

From early summer 1915

Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell , became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.
Berkman, Joyce Avrech. Pacifism in England, 1914-1939. Yale University, 1967, http://U of A HSS.
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Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
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July 1955: The Adelphi, which was launched in June 1923...

Writing climate item

July 1955

The Adelphi, which was launched in June 1923 with John Middleton Murry as editor, issued its final number.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Texts

Murry, John Middleton, and Anne Finch. “Introduction”. Poems by Anne, Countess of Winchilsea 1661-1720, Jonathan Cape, 1928, pp. 3-20.
Mansfield, Katherine. Journal of Katherine Mansfield. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable and Company, 1927.
Mansfield, Katherine. Novels & Novelists. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Beacon Press, 1930.
Mansfield, Katherine. Poems. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable and Company, 1923.
Mansfield, Katherine. Something Childish and Other Stories. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable, 1924, http://U of A HSS.
Mansfield, Katherine. The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable and Company, 1923.
Mansfield, Katherine. The Letters of Katherine Mansfield. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable and Company, 1928, 2 vol.