John Middleton Murry
Personal Information
Description
John Middleton Murry was an English writer. He was prolific, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married in 1918 as her second husband, for his friendship with D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot, and for his friendship (and brief affair) with Frieda Lawrence. Following Mansfield's death, Murry edited her work. - Wikipedia
Books
Discoveries
Jonathan Swift
God
Poets, critics, mystics
In introducing J. M. Murry to present-day readers, Sir Richard Rees, who was coeditor of the Adelphi from 1930 to 1936, draws heavily from Murry{u2019}s unsigned and uncollected articles. His selections clearly show Murry{u2019}s involvement in the moral issues of the day, his surprising interests, and his broad scholarship.
Katherine Mansfield
Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies on her heels; but when she died aged only thirty-four she became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the brilliant circles of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, her beauty and recklessness inspiring admiration, jealousy, rage and devotion. Claire Tomalin's biography brings us nearer than we have ever been to this courageous, greatly gifted, haunted and haunting writer.