Murray's Magazine
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Murray's Magazine was a monthly magazine published by the John Murray publishing house
John Murray (publisher)
John Murray is an English publisher, renowned for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, and Charles Darwin...

. Sixty issues were published, from January 1887 through December 1891.
It was priced at 1/- (one shilling
Shilling
The shilling is a unit of currency used in some current and former British Commonwealth countries. The word shilling comes from scilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere. The word is thought to derive...

).

The magazine included limited amounts of fiction, including works by
  • Thomas Hardy
    Thomas Hardy
    Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...

  • Vernon Lee
    Vernon Lee
    Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget . She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she also wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel.-Biography:She was born at Château...

     (as "Amour Dure") in January of 1887
  • Emily Lawless
    Emily Lawless
    Emily Lawless was an Irish novelist and poet from County Kildare.-Biography :She was born at Lyons House below Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare. Her grandfather was Valentine Lawless, a member of the United Irishmen and son of a convert from Catholicism to the Church of Ireland. Her father...

  • Lucas Malet
    Lucas Malet
    Lucas Malet is the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley , Victorian novelist.She was the daughter of Charles Kingsley, author of The Water Babies...

  • Axel Munthe
    Axel Munthe
    Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe was a Swedish psychiatrist, best known as the author of The Story of San Michele, an autobiographical account of his life and work....

      (For Those Who Love Music, later collected in Memories and Vagaries
    Memories and Vagaries
    Memories and Vagaries is a collection of short memoirs and essays by Axel Munthe.It has been published in several languages and editions, with differing contents and ordering....

    )
  • Margaret L. Woods


Non-fictional works include:
  • Richard Corney Grain
    Richard Corney Grain
    Richard Corney Grain , known by his stage name Corney Grain, was an entertainer and songwriter of the late Victorian era.-Biography:...

    's autobiography

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