John Murray

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Publishing Anna Eliza Bray
Publisher John Murray rejected the manuscript, but it was soon accepted by Longmans , with an agreement that gave the author and her husband half the profits after publishing expenses were covered. Longmans then delayed...
Publishing Rose Macaulay
This was her last novel published by John Murray .
Publishing Dervla Murphy
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...
Publishing Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
CADS was bitterly disappointed when both Heinemann and John Murray rejected her Elizabethan novel, Ulalia; it remained unpublished, but she always considered it one of her best works.
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth, 1987.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Publishing Rose Macaulay
RM 's previous publisher, John MurrayJohn Murray , was astonished to learn of her win: she had not submitted the manuscript to him. However, he wrote her a congratulatory note, which he concluded: If at any...
Publishing Freya Stark
FS published, with John Murray , East is West. In the United StatesAlfred A. Knopf published this book as The Arab Island: The Middle East, 1939-1943.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Caroline Norton
CN 's poem A Voice from the Factories was accepted for publication by John Murray ; it appeared anonymously that year.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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Publishing Elizabeth Rigby
She translated many works, though her nephew Charles Eastlake Smith wrongly credits her with Franz Kugler 's Handbook of Painting: The Schools of Painting in Italy (two volumes, 1851), which her husband edited. Most library...
Reception Harriette Wilson
Contemporary admirers of HW on literary grounds included Walter Scott , who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out
qtd. in
Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton, 1936.
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a better writer than Teresia Constantia Phillips or others in the...
Reception Mary Somerville
MS was a considerable time employed in writing this book,
qtd. in
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
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and sent it to Brougham for appraisal with some anxiety. Brougham deemed it too advanced to be accessible to his intended public readership, and...
Textual Features Maria Callcott
After her first return from Italy and again later in her life, Maria Graham (later MC ) did book reviews for the publisher John Murray . She expressed her admiration for contemporary literature: Coleridge ,...
Textual Features Charlotte Riddell
The protagonist has an invalid mother. She takes disappointments and setbacks bravely, tramping round one publisher's office after another. Her eventual success brings her the happiness of her own (unshared) country cottage.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
The novel includes...
Textual Features Freya Stark
This volume covers the years 1928-33, during which FS established her reputation both as a traveller (winning the Back Memorial Grant of the Royal Geographical Society and the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Textual Production Frances Brooke
The full title was Elements of the History of England from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of George II; it bore her name. The Critical Review dealt with the earlier volumes...
Textual Production Sarah Macnaughtan
John Murray published a novel by SM , The Andersons, whose first appearance in October was followed by further impressions in November and December.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Macnaughtan, Sarah. The Andersons. J. Murray, 1910.
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Texts

Murphy, Dervla. Full Tilt. John Murray, 1965.
Murphy, Dervla. In Ethiopia with a Mule. John Murray, 1968.
Murphy, Dervla. Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals. John Murray, 2006.
Murphy, Dervla. South from the Limpopo. John Murray, 1997.
Murphy, Dervla. Through Siberia by Accident. John Murray, 2005.
Panter-Downes, Mollie. Storm Bird. John Murray, 1929.
Panter-Downes, Mollie. The Shoreless Sea. John Murray, 1923.
Peck, Winifred. Twelve Birthdays. John Murray, 1918.
Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, 1930, p. various pages.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. The Arctic Expeditions. John Murray, 1818.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. The Veils. John Murray, 1815.
Renault, Mary. Funeral Games. John Murray, 1981.
Ridler, Anne. Olive Willis and Downe House. John Murray, 1967.
Rigby, Elizabeth. A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic. John Murray, 1841, 2 vols.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Livonian Tales. John Murray, 1846.
Rigby, Elizabeth, and Charles Lock Eastlake. “Memoir”. Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts: Second Series, John Murray, 1870, pp. 1-196.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Mrs. Grote. John Murray, 1880.
Brandl, Alois. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School. Translator Rigby, Elizabeth, John Murray, 1887.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray, 1919.
Roberts, Brian. Ladies in the Veld. John Murray, 1965.
Rose, George Henry, editor. Papers of the Earls of Marchmont. John Murray, 1831, 3 vols.
Rose, George Henry. “The Preface and The Defence of Patrick Earl of Marchmont”. A Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont, in the possession of the Right Hon. Sir George Henry Rose, John Murray, 1831, p. 1: vii - cxxxii.
Rosen, Michael. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story. John Murray, 2013.
Ross, Janet. Three Generations of Englishwomen. John Murray, 1888, 2 vols.
Routley, Erik. Hymns and Human Life. 2nd ed., John Murray, 1959.