The interest of another publisher in FS
's writing, together with excellent sales, prompted John Murray
to renegotiate her royalties and to reprint Baghdad Sketches in 1937.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999.
James Stanier Clarke
, the prince's librarian, had issued a somewhat obliquely-worded invitation to dedicate a future work to the prince. Emma was duly dedicated to him, albeit succinctly. Austen requested her new publisher, John Murray
Publishing
Mary Renault
With its British publication in February 1979, she moved from Allen Lane
to a publishing firm new for her, John Murray
. She valued them for having been Byron's publishers, and for being a family...
Publishing
Sarah Macnaughtan
It was published by W. Heinemann
, with a reissue by John Murray
in the same year. Cheap, popular editions were issued by T. Nelson and Sons
in 1909, 1910, and 1930.
The poem was part-finished at the beginning of the year.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 545, 546
Like Holford's previous book it is dedicated to her mother
, from whom, she writes, she imbibed and inherited the taste which...
Publishing
Dorothy Whipple
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...
She drafted the first chapter very soon after receiving her six complementary copies of her first novel; the new working title was Marnie.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
13, 15
She complained of lack of inspiration, and made a...
Publishing
Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
Two years after her second marriage, BBBD
had privately printed, again through John Murray
, two volumes of Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems.
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821, 2 vols.
1: prelims
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Dorothy Whipple
Again she felt sure the book would be a failure, judging it not properly thought out in the beginning, about nothing—stale, flat.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
22
Nevertheless she giggled at the thought of it as a defective offspring...
Publishing
Germaine de Staël
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.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
69-70, 75
Lessenich, Rolf. “Literary Views of English Rhine Romanticism 1760-1860”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
10
, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1999, pp. 480-18.
490
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
138
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Isabella Bird
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.
Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray, 1906.
80-2
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 29, 33
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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).
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989.
238-9
Publishing
Harriet Martineau
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...
Publishing
Germaine de Staël
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...
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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.
