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Murry, John Middleton

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER

Murry, John Middleton (1889–1957), editor of the Modernist periodical Rhythm (1911–13), through which he met in 1912 Katherine Mansfield , whom he was later (in 1918) to marry. In 1914 he met D. H. Lawrence , who greatly influenced him; the relationship of the Lawrences and the Murrys was intense and tempestuous, and is reflected in Women in Love . From 1919 to 1921 Murry was editor of the Athenaeum , in which he published an impressive range of writers, including V. Woolf , T. S. Eliot , and Valéry, and in which he himself attacked Georgian poetry. In 1923, the ...

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