John
Middleton Murry, the son of a clerk, was born in Peckham in 1889.
Educated at Christ's Hospital and Brasenose
College, Oxford he founded and edited
the modernist
periodical Rhythm in 1911. The
following year he met the short-story writer, Katherine
Mansfield. The couple began living together and Murry began publishing
her work in Rhythm. Mansfield
and Murry married in 1918.
Murry, who became editor of Athenaeum
in 1919, also became closely involved with the writing careers of
D. H. Lawrence and Virginia
Woolf.
After the death of Katherine Mansfield
from tuberculosis,
in 1923, he edited and arranged for the publication of her Journals
(1927) and The Letters of Katherine Mansfield
(1928). Other works by Murry include The
Problems of Style (1922), Keats
and Shakespeare (1925), The Story
of D. H. Lawrence (1931) and an autobiography, Between
Two Worlds (1935). John
Middleton Murry
died in 1957.
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