''Murray's Magazine'' was a monthly magazine published by the
John Murray publishing house. Sixty issues were published, from January 1887 through to December 1891.
It was priced at 1/- (one
shilling
The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currency, currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 1 ...
).
The magazine included limited amounts of fiction, including works by
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Literary realism, Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry ...
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Vernon Lee
Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the French-born British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, ...
(as "Amour Dure") in January 1887
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Emily Lawless
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Lucas Malet
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Axel Munthe ("For Those Who Love Music", later collected in ''
Memories and Vagaries'')
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Margaret L. Woods
Non-fictional works include:
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Richard Corney Grain's autobiography
*articles on music by composer
Mary Augusta Wakefield
Mary Augusta Wakefield (19 August 1853 – 16 September 1910) was a British composer, contralto, festival organiser, and writer.
Biography Early life
Wakefield was born in Kendal, where her paternal ancestors had been members of the Quakers, ...
References
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Further reading
''Time'', ''Murray's Magazine'', & ''The Quarto'' - Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guide)*Georgiana, Dowager Lady De Ros. Reprinted from Murray's Magazine 1889 Part I.
Murray's Magazine archive at HathiTrust
Defunct literary magazines published in the United Kingdom
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1887
Magazines disestablished in 1891
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