Jane Austen’s second publisher sold
The John Murray publishing imprint has been sold to Hachette Livre as part of their acquisition of Hodder Headline. John Murray was the first publisher of Emma, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey.
John Murray was founded in 1768 and its authors included Lord Byron, Jane Austen (Emma), Charles Darwin (The Origin of Species), Arthur Conan Doyle, John Betjeman, Kenneth Clark, Patrick Leigh Fermor and David Gilmour. It was only in 2002 that the firm, still chaired by a member of the Murray family, decided to sell out to Hodder Headline.
