John Murray

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Standard Name: Murray, John,, 1778 - 1843
Used Form: John Samuel Murray
Used Form: John Murray, the second

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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.
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He presented a copy of the eighth edition (which appeared before the end of the year) to the Countess Guiccioli on her visit...
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.
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She was paid 100 guineas by publisher John Murray . During that same difficult...
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.
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This time she used as a publisher her friend John Murray , who had...
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.
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, No. 3, 1999, pp. 285-95.
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Before long...
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
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...
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
The resulting ninety-four letters, dedicated and addressed to Southey , were written between February 1832...
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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