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Publishing | Susan Ferrier | SF
only published under the condition that she remained anonymous, hiding her authorship for fear that she would be condemned as unladylike. If I was suspected of being accessory to such foul deeds my brothers... |
Publishing | Fanny Kemble | John Murray
bought the publication rights for the play for £450. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000. 48 |
Publishing | Harriette Wilson | In about 1822 HW
composed a work she called Sketches in the Round Room at the Opera House (a kind of dry run for her Memoirs), which depicts her former lovers under disguised names:... |
Publishing | Germaine de Staël | GS
had researched in Germany on her visit of 1803. By the time she reached London and was able to arrange publication, Germany was under French (i.e. Napoleon's) military occupation. John Murray
paid her 1,500... |
Publishing | Lady Caroline Lamb | 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)... |
Publishing | Sarah Austin | SA
translated Friedrich von Raumer
's England in 1835 (1836) to support her family during their time in Boulogne. Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985. 69 |
Publishing | Lady Caroline Lamb | She had been working on this novel at least since November 1821, when her husband
was helping her with revision. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 226n109 |
Publishing | Mary Shelley | 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. Clemit, Patricia. “Mary Shelley and William Godwin: a literary-political partnership, 1823-1836”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, 1999, pp. 285-95. 290-1 |
Publishing | Anna Seward | AS
had been in some kind of publishing negotiation with Constable
of Edinburgh for several years. Archibald Constable
visited her in April 1807. After this he consulted John Murray
in London, who advised him against... |
Publishing | Harriet Martineau | |
Publishing | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 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... |
Publishing | Anna Eliza Bray | In a letter dated February 1831, Southey suggested that she should create a good specimen of local history. qtd. in Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 52 |
Occupation | George Gordon sixth Baron Byron | In Venice he discovered surviving letters from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
to Francesco Algarotti
, and wrote to his publisher, John Murray
, about getting them into print. Murray, however, did not respond. Winch, Alison. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Byronic Hero”. Pride and Prejudices: Women’s Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century, 4 July 2013. |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Byron
, in a letter to Murray
by 30 September 1816, praised The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy as a good poem—very, and he echoed it in Canto 4 of Childe... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Nevertheless, the Romantic Circles Electronic Edition of this poem edited by Nanora Sweet
and Barbara Taylor
represents it as a much more open and indeed sceptical text than FH
's own comment suggests, and subtitles... |
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