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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 | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Following her well-publicised battles first with Colburn
and then with Saunders and Otley
, Morgan got Thomas Moore
to sound out John Murray
about taking her on. She had a plan to follow her Life... |
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... |
Textual Production | Mary Somerville | John Murray
of London published Mechanism of the Heavens, MS
's popular rendering of Pierre Simon Laplace
's seminal astronomical text Méchanique Céleste. An e-text of this book, with an appendix of some... |
Reception | Mary Somerville | MS
's publisher, John Murray
, commissioned Thomas Phillips
to paint her portrait; this picture now hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16. 212 Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 141 |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | 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... |
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, 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... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | She was welcomed into Edinburgh society, where she attended dinners, masked balls, and concerts. Through her London editors, John Murray
and John Gibson Lockhart
, she made literary connections. She knew Professor John Wilson
and... |
Travel | Elizabeth Rigby | Her friend and publisher, the elder John Murray
, had died the previous year. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 43 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
disliked Murray
's addition of By a Lady to the title. Ten years later she wrote: I think that the ladylike origin is not felt generally to be any recommendation to a volume. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 29-30 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Rigby | Editor John Gibson Lockhart
(who became a close friend) invited her to write for the periodical after being introduced to her work by John Murray
. She was only the second woman to publish in... |
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 | Harriet Martineau | |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | 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 |
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