John Murray

They had a trial separation inJune 1948. Before leaving Antigua, where Stewart Perowne was stationed, Stark wrote to John Jock Murray about feeling caged. . . . Don't repeat this Jock, but I did...

Back from the Middle East, FS began to write about her experiences abroad: starting in November 1928, she published short pieces in Cornhill Magazine, then edited by Leonard Huxley . Through Huxley she met...

DM 's publisher, John Murray , became her close friend and her daughter's godfather.

Having received it in manuscript, Jock Murray wrote, I have read 150 pages and cannot go to bed. This must sound like . . . a fan letter—just what it is. He went on...

She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton , encouraged her, and when she...

She wrote this while her daughter's schooling was limiting her freedom to travel. I wrote it for Rachel , really, as I had a strange childhood that I wanted her to understand. I never expected...

Thinking of her father's years of hoping and struggling to publish his novels, DM said she felt her life had been chosen as the medium through which all the strivings of generations of scribbling Murphys...

John Jock Murray and Sir Sydney Cockerell initially advised Stark against writing this book, urging her to remain in the travel genre rather than attempt philosophical writing. However, they apologized for their opinions when the...

Here frequent notes, both longer and shorter, are interspersed among the diary entries. The tone is less ecstatic than Full Tilt, but it records the satisfactions of difficulties overcome and employs a good deal...

BM 's first biographical writing took the form of short studies of eminent Victorians for the Cornhill, Horizon, and Twentieth Century. It was one of these on Robert Browning for the Cornhill...