John Murray

The full title reads Fables and other Pieces in Verse . . . With some account of the author, in letters to Robert Southey Esq. . . . by Mrs. Bray. The dedicatory poem...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

LCL planned to enlist John Murray 's help in producing a single, unique printed copy of Childe Harold illustrated with her sketches of scenes from the poem in which the Childe (which means knight)...

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...

She had been working on this novel at least since November 1821, when her husband was helping her with revision. This time she used as a publisher her friend John Murray , who had...

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. Before long...

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...

She had started it on her previous birthday, 12 June 1838. John Murray had solicited a novel from her—which would have been the first his firm had published since Scott —only to reject it when...

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...

In a letter dated February 1831, Southey suggested that she should create a good specimen of local history. The resulting ninety-four letters, dedicated and addressed to Southey , were written between February 1832...