John Middleton Murry

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Standard Name: Murry, John Middleton

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Friends, Associates Enid Bagnold
With Dolly Tylden , EB occupied a three-bedroom flat and lived in what she recognized as mock poverty.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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In Chelsea she socialised with other artists, including Henri Gaudier (who sculpted a bust of...
Textual Production Dorothy Brett
For the first time in her life DB kept a sort of diary, writing it in a volume with printed blank pages dated from January through March that year. She addressed it to John Middleton Murry
Textual Production Dorothy Brett
From about a month after Katherine Mansfield died until the end of the year (with a kind of postscript before leaving for New Mexico), DB kept a surviving diary in a volume given her by...
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...
Occupation Dorothy Brett
After graduating from the Slade School of Art, DB became a professional artist. Her most famous early exhibition piece was War Widows, painted in 1916, in which a crowd of black-clad pregnant women take...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Brett
Brett moved in various distinct social circles. Augustus John was an admired acquaintance. Virginia Woolf , a friend, nevertheless commented in 1921 on Brett being one of the entourage of Lady Ottoline Morrell , and...
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...
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...
Residence Dorothy Brett
John Middleton Murry was supposed to accompany them, but in the event did not, and the idea of the community quickly evaporated. They first stayed in Taos with Mabel Dodge Luhan , who then conveyed...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Dorothy Brett
A crucial entry from the Mansfield diary reads Dearest Tig, For the first time in my life I slept with a man and that man was yours = I found you on the stairs—quite early...
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...
Textual Production Catherine Carswell
CC felt compelled to answer John Middleton Murry 's book on Lawrence, Son of Woman, in which he argued it takes a great man to be wrong as Lawrence was wrong.
Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence, Cambridge University Press, p. v - xxxv.
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Carswell, obviously...
Reception Catherine Carswell
Although Murry had overseen serialisation of parts of The Savage Pilgrimage in a magazine under his editorship, he wrote to Chatto and Windus within two weeks of the book's appearance to demand withdrawal of the...
Literary responses T. S. Eliot
A Times Literary Supplement review which considered both this volume and John Middleton Murry 's The Critic in Judgment; or, Belshazzar of Baronscourt (also a Hogarth Press volume) found Murry facile but Eliot impoverished by...
Literary responses Anne Finch
Later in the nineteenth century, Edmund Gosse (who then owned one of AF 's handsome verse manuscript volumes) made some parade, in chivalric, heavily gendered language, of his gallantry towards Ardelia, who, he said...

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.

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.

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.