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Murry, John Middleton (1889–1957) By Ross, Shawna

DOI: 10.4324/0123456789-REM1872-1
Published: 26/04/2018
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John Middleton Murry, born in Peckham, London on 6 August 1889, was a prolific English writer best known today as the husband and literary executor of Katherine Mansfield. The son of an internal revenue clerk, determined to overcome his lower-middle-class surroundings, Murry won a scholarship to Christ’s Hospital, Sussex, and another to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first in Classics. He founded the journal Rhythm, beginning the editorial and critical labours that defined his reputation during his life. Murry edited a succession of literary magazines—most influentially, the Athanaeum. He steadily produced volumes of literary criticism, politics, religion, and other non-fiction until his death, drawing attention (and often ire) for his radical politics and his critical disagreements with T.S. Eliot.

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Ross, Shawna. Murry, John Middleton (1889–1957). Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/murry-john-middleton-1889-1957.

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