Person    | Male  Born 6/8/1889  Died 13/3/1957

John Middleton Murry

Categories: Literature

Literary critic.
Born Peckham. Husband of Katherine Mansfield and on her death married a woman who strongly resembled her and also died of tuberculosis. His 3rd marriage was a disaster but he finally got it right with number 4. He spent much of his life promoting Mansfield's work. Died in hospital at Bury St Edmunds.

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John Middleton Murry

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Katherine Mansfield & J.M. Murry

Greater London Council Katherine Mansfield, 1888 - 1923, writer, and her hus...

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Doves Press

Doves Press

See Doves Bindery.  Our picture shows the only remaining piece of the Doves type, or did until 2015, when some more was retrieved - see Doves Bindery.

Place, Literature

2 memorials
Norman Douglas

Norman Douglas

Writer. Born George Norman Douglas in Thüringen, Austria, the son of a mountaineer and archaeologist. Joined the Foreign Office in 1894 and served in St Petersburg. He settled in Capri, where his c...

Person, Literature, Austria, Italy, Russia

1 memorial
Tobias George Smollett

Tobias George Smollett

Born Dalquhurn (now part of Renton) Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Poet and author of novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle which supposedly influenced ...

Person, Literature, Poetry, Italy, Scotland

1 memorial
Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield

Born New Zealand as Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp. Sent to Queen's College to be "finished". Met John Murry in 1911, he moved in and they jointly edited an avant-garde magazine, Rhythm, later Blue ...

Person, Literature, New Zealand

1 memorial
Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford

Born Surrey as Ford Hermann Hueffer, of an English mother and German father, Francis Heuffer. Grew up in Pre-Raphaelite circles. On the death of their father in 1889 Ford and his brother went to li...

Person, Literature, France, Germany, USA

1 memorial