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John Murray (publisher, born 1778)

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284:. Literary London flocked to his house and Murray became the centre of the publishing world, regularly hosting meetings between authors and friends in his drawing-room. It was in his drawing-room that Scott and Byron first met, and here, in 1824, after the death of Lord Byron, that the manuscript of his memoirs, considered by Gifford unfit for publication, was destroyed. A close friendship existed between Byron and his publisher, but for political reasons business relations ceased after the publication of the fifth canto of 498: 44: 157: 199:
The publishing house was founded by Murray's father, who died when Murray was only fifteen years old. During his adolescence, he ran the business with a partner Samuel Highley, but in 1803 the partnership was dissolved. Murray soon began to show the courage in literary speculation which earned for
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in 1809. Murray was closely cooperated with Constable, but ended the association in 1813 due to Constable's business methods that did not work properly.
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him later the name given him by Lord Byron of "the Anak of publishers", a reference to
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Scottish publisher, member of the John Murray publishing house (1778–1843)
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among its earliest contributors. He published Croker's popular poem
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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for the copyright. In 1812, he bought the publishing business of
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Daughter of Edinburgh publisher and bookseller Charles Elliot.
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he gave nearly £5,000 for writing the life of Byron, and to
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Contributions to English, Irish, and American periodicals
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19th-century Scottish newspaper publishers (people)
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John Murray (1778–1843)

John Murray III
John Murray

Scottish
John Murray publishing house
Sir Walter Scott
Lord Byron
Jane Austen
Maria Rundell
Anak
Book of Numbers
Archibald Constable
Marmion
Edinburgh Review
George Canning
Quarterly Review
William Gifford
Robert Southey
John Hookham Frere
John Wilson Croker
The Battles of Talavera
Childe Harold
Robert Charles Dallas
guineas
William Miller
Albemarle Street
Don Juan
Thomas Moore

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