John Murray

Her friend and publisher, the elder John Murray , had died the previous year.

For her part she offered Godwin information about European countries for his novels, pointed him to useful books which she had reviewed, and provided him with a spark when he had writer's block. She offered...

According to her own account, LCL wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence...

John Murray of London published Mechanism of the Heavens, MS 's popular rendering of Pierre Simon Laplace 's seminal astronomical text Méchanique Céleste.

MC based her travel writings on diaries written at the time. When Rosamund Brunel Gotch published her biography in 1937, the manuscripts of MC 's early journals had only recently come to light. Gotch printed...

These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson

MS 's publisher, John Murray , commissioned Thomas Phillips to paint her portrait; this picture now hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery .

This tale reached its fifth edition independently of the other Tales in 1823, when it appeared as a kind of trailer to John Murray 's projected edition of the whole series. Byron recognised Kruitzner as...

LCL planned to enlist John Murray 's help in producing a single, unique printed copy of Childe Harold illustrated with her sketches of scenes from the poem in which the Childe (which means knight)...

MS had thought about biographical writing in 1830, and suggested by letter to John Murray on 9 August that she should write something (biographical, historical, or literary) for his Family Library. Before long...

In a letter dated February 1831, Southey suggested that she should create a good specimen of local history. The resulting ninety-four letters, dedicated and addressed to Southey , were written between February 1832...

She had been working on this novel at least since November 1821, when her husband was helping her with revision. This time she used as a publisher her friend John Murray , who had...

She had started it on her previous birthday, 12 June 1838. John Murray had solicited a novel from her—which would have been the first his firm had published since Scott —only to reject it when...

The full title reads Fables and other Pieces in Verse . . . With some account of the author, in letters to Robert Southey Esq. . . . by Mrs. Bray. The dedicatory poem...

Byron (an admirer of Montagu's writing) came on some of her letters to Algarotti in Venice in the early nineteenth century, but his efforts to get John Murray to publish them came to nothing. A...