John Murray

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Augusta Gregory
It was published in Dublin by Hodges, Figgis , and in London by John Murray .
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston, 1982.
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It was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Gregory, Augusta. Poets and Dreamers. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing Lucie Duff Gordon
Though LDG only earned a £50 translation fee from her publisher, John Murray , her work was very successful and ran to three editions before the year's end.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
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Publishing Lady Caroline Lamb
An odd spin-off from LCL 's desire to make herself into a professional writer was her project for a pocket diary or almanac. These ephemeral publications were repositories of useful information of many kinds as...
Publishing Naomi Mitchison
NM says this book came out at white heat and, what is more, I wrote all the best bits, the juicy bits, first, all the bits that were most exciting and satisfying to write, like...
Publishing Caroline Bowles
It featured coloured engravings by George Cruikshank , done from Bowles's own sketches. John Murray rejected this poem for publication. Bowles is often not catalogued as its author.
Blain, Virginia. “Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey Negotiates Blackwoods 1820-1847”. Victorian Journalism, edited by Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, Queensland University Press, 1998, pp. 1-18.
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Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
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Publishing Augusta Gregory
It appeared in a limited edition of 200 copies.
Smythe, Colin et al., editors. “Chronology”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 1-12.
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The following year it was published by John Murray in London and Scribner in New York.
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston, 1982.
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The subtitle downplays AG 's role in...
Publishing Harriet Lee
John Murray paid HL £300 in probably 1822 for the copyright of the Canterbury Tales; but he made a loss, for sales of his re-issue did not cover his printing expenses, let alone the...
Publishing Anna Swanwick
She had made the first draft of these translations in 1835, to get over her loneliness after the marriage of her sister Mary. She revised them after her eight months in Berlin, and submitted...
Publishing Mary Russell Mitford
MRM was working on this poem by July 1810.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
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She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...
Publishing Mary Somerville
As was normal practice for scientific texts at the time, MS had canvassed a number of her learned friends for aid in preparing and proofreading her manuscript. Lord Brougham , Michael Faraday , James Forbes
Publishing Mary Boyle
Privately printed, MB 's collection My Portrait Gallery, and Other Poems appeared; it could be obtained upon application to John Murray , publishers, for 7s 6d.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Boyle, Mary. My Portrait Gallery, and Other Poems. Privately printed by Bradbury and Evans, 1849.
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Publishing Augusta Gregory
The play was published in 1916 by John Murray in London and by Putnam 's in New York.
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston, 1982.
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Publishing Lucie Duff Gordon
LDG began work on her next translation, Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials, in August 1845, shortly after the death of her infant son. There was a tremendous amount of work involved in condensing the...
Publishing Rose Macaulay
She used the firm of John Murray , who remained her regular publisher until 1912.
Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana, 1968.
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Biographer Sarah Lefanu believes that she worked off in this novel some of her turbulent emotions about the close...
Publishing Mary Shelley
The firm of John Murray declined to publish Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus, which had been offered to them through H[orace] (or Horatio) Smith , a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley , the author 's husband.
Sutherland, Kathryn. “Jane Austen’s Dealings with John Murray and his Firm”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
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, 31 Mar. 2012.
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Texts

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. How I Became a Holy Mother, and Other Stories. John Murray, 1976.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. In Search of Love and Beauty. John Murray, 1983.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Like Birds, Like Fishes, and Other Stories. John Murray, 1963.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Poet and Dancer. John Murray, 1993.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Shards of Memory. John Murray, 1995.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. The Householder. John Murray, 1960.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Three Continents. John Murray, 1987.
Johnson, Samuel. Sir Joshua’s Nephew. Editor Radcliffe, Susan M., John Murray, 1930.
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Ada Reis. John Murray, 1823, 3 vols.
Lawless, Emily, and Shan Fadh Bullock. The Race of Castlebar. John Murray, 1913.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
Loudon, Jane. Botany for Ladies. John Murray, 1842.
Macaulay, Rose. Abbots Verney. John Murray, 1906.
Macaulay, Rose. The Furnace. John Murray, 1907.
Macaulay, Rose. Views and Vagabonds. John Murray, 1912.
Macnaughtan, Sarah. My War Experiences in Two Continents. Editor Keays-Young, Betty, John Murray, 1919.
Macnaughtan, Sarah. Us Four. John Murray, 1909.
Mango, Andrew. Atatürk. John Murray, 1999.
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
Meredith, Louisa Anne. My Home in Tasmania. John Murray, 1852, 2 vols.
Meredith, Louisa Anne. Notes and Sketches of New South Wales. John Murray, 1844.
Miller, Betty. Robert Browning: A Portrait. John Murray, 1952.
Murphy, Dervla. A Place Apart. John Murray, 1978.