John Middleton Murry

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Standard Name: Murry, John Middleton

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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
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...
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
Friends, Associates Katherine Mansfield
This time Mary Hutchinson , Clive Bell , Aldous Huxley , T. W. Earp , Brett , J. M. Keynes , and J. T. Sheppard were there. KM was back for further weekends in September...
Friends, Associates Viola Meynell
VM met Lawrence through Ivy Low . Enthusiastic about his writing, she offered to lend him her cottage and to do his typing. During his stay on the Meynells' property, Lawrence introduced Viola to Ottoline Morrell
Friends, Associates Enid Bagnold
With Dolly Tylden , EB occupied a three-bedroom flat and lived in what she recognized as mock poverty.
qtd. in
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
31
In Chelsea she socialised with other artists, including Henri Gaudier (who sculpted a bust of...
Friends, Associates Susan Miles
During her years at Bloomsbury, UR met the many distinguished literary figures who were either parishioners or readers at fund-raising events, like T. S. Eliot , John Middleton Murry , Edith Sitwell , Wilfrid Meynell
Friends, Associates Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS was a close friend of Rose Macaulay , with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing...
Friends, Associates Katherine Mansfield
James Joyce had tea with KM and Murry in Paris (only weeks after the first appearance of Ulysses).
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
417

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.
223-4

July 1955: The Adelphi, which was launched in June 1923...

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July 1955

The Adelphi, which was launched in June 1923 with John Middleton Murry as editor, issued its final number.
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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.