John Murray

Her father had become so irritated with Rowland Hunter that he urged her to take the Memoirs to John Murray , but she did not do this. She earned seven hundred and fifty pounds from...

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...

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...

FH 's The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy, A Poem was published as by a Lady; for the second, revised, edition she switched to John Murray as her publisher.

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.

She wrote under the impression that the topic of the Elgin Marbles (ancient Greek carvings and statues removed from the Parthenon in Athens to England by Lord Elgin , and first exhibited in London in...

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...

SA translated Friedrich von Raumer 's England in 1835 (1836) to support her family during their time in Boulogne. She was paid 100 guineas by publisher John Murray . During that same difficult...

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...

John Murray bought the publication rights for the play for £450.He presented a copy of the eighth edition (which appeared before the end of the year) to the Countess Guiccioli on her visit...

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...

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:...

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.

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...

Emma received eight reviews in English: more than any other Austen novel. Murray sounded apologetic as he invited Walter Scott to review it (It wants incident and romance does it not?). For...