Nineteenth Century Literary Society (John Murray)

A DIGITAL RESOURCE

Nineteenth Century Literary Society The John Murray Publishing Archive

An unparalleled resource for nineteenth century culture and the literary luminaries who shaped it. INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE ARCHIVE THEMES

Nineteenth Century Literary Society The National Library of Scotland is a reference library with Literature and poetry offers unprecedented digital access to the world-class collections. Its holdings range from unique Publishing and book history historical documents to online journals, with a specialism The life and works of Lord Byron peerless archive of the historic John Murray in Scotland’s knowledge, history and culture. The Library publishing company. has held the John Murray Archive materials since 2006. Travel and exploration Science and geology To find out more visit www.nls.uk Held by the National Library of Scotland since Politics and society 2006 and added to the UNESCO Register of World Memory in 2011, the Murray collection comprises one of the world’s most important KEY FIGURES literary archives. The Murray family stood at the heart of nineteenth century This digital resource enables researchers to literary society, and their authors and correspondents included discover the golden age of the company that many leading writers of the period such as: published genre-defining titles including Lord Byron Washington Irving Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Austen’s Charles Darwin Herman Melville Emma, and Livingstone’s Missionary Travels. David Livingstone Pioneering female writers In addition, the resource makes available the Contemporary bestselling including Isabella Bird most complete archival collection of Lord authors: Austen Henry Editors of the periodical, Layard and Charles Lyell The Quarterly Review: Byron, charting both literary triumph and Sir Walter Scott William Gifford, John personal scandal. Gibson Lockhart Jane Austen and Whitwell Elwin Political figures: William Gladstone, Sir Robert Peel EDITORIAL BOARD and Benjamin Disraeli

Deidre Lynch Leigh Wetherall-Dickson Harvard University Northumbria University COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS David McClay Charles Withers Former Senior Curator of Geographer Royal for Scotland the John Murray Archive Correspondence charting the founding of the business by John Murray in 1768 Tom Mole Edinburgh University Annotated drafts of Lord Byron’s works including Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and the poet’s personal papers The completed, first edition file copy of On the Origin of Species, “The Murray authors set our with related correspondence from Charles Darwin standards for modern Financial papers recording the sales success of hundreds of literature and civilisation. Murray titles Correspondence sent home from Isabella Bird’s travels in This archive contains their America, Australia and the Far East stories and hundreds, perhaps For further information or a free trial Drafts of David Livingstone’s seminal work, Missionary Travels thousands, of untold tales – please visit www.amdigital.co.uk and Researches in South Africa, with proof illustrations it’s a researcher’s goldmine.” Advertisements originally published in the Murray journal, The Quarterly Review David McClay @AdamMatthewGrp Former Senior Curator of the John Murray Archive The publisher is grateful to the source archive for the reproduction of images used in this flyer. Cover image courtesy of The Murray Collection, London.