John Murray

DW 's first story written at and about Barton Seagrave, the place to which she and her husband retired, was about a pretty girl she had watched from her window coping lightly with marriage...

Those who published the book in 1908 included Thomas Nelson and Sons and John Murray . E. P. Dutton put out a US edition in July of that year.

She drafted the first chapter very soon after receiving her six complementary copies of her first novel; the new working title was Marnie. She complained of lack of inspiration, and made a...

GS 's De l'Allemagne (Germany), a work on German culture and politics suppressed by Napoleon , was finally published by John Murray at London, from a copy of proofs which she had hidden.

Two years after her second marriage, BBBD had privately printed, again through John Murray , two volumes of Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems.

Again she felt sure the book would be a failure, judging it not properly thought out in the beginning, about nothing—stale, flat. Nevertheless she giggled at the thought of it as a defective offspring...

GS left two unfinished works at her death which were published posthumously. Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la révolution françoise, 1817, appeared in English as Considerations on the Principal Events of the French...

IB submitted to her publisher a sizable part of the manuscript of what would become The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands.

RPJ switched to the publisher John Murray for her fourth novel, The Householder, which was also the first for which she wrote a screenplay (for a film which appeared in 1963).

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...

Her finished manuscript was submitted to London publisher John Murray , who had published other travel writers. Murray accepted this book, altered its title from the proposed The Car and the Steamboat to The Englishwoman...

When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan , Heinemann (where the managing director told her to bring it back if...

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...

She decided to write this one in preference to a different potential novel which was also pressing to be written. She made two false starts before she could feel the story was launched. For use...

Again John Murray reneged, at an advanced stage, on the arrangement for his firm to publish the book, so HM turned to Moxon . Its earnings during the first year following publication paid for her...