Francis Edwin Murray (1854-1932) was a Uranian poet and publisher of the late 19th and early 20th century. Almost totally forgotten today, his books of verse include ''Rondeaux of Boyhood'' (1923), limited to 300 copies, and ''From a Lover's Garden: More Rondeaux and Other Verses of Boyhood'' (1924), limited to 225 copies. The former was written under the pseudonym A. Newman. The latter contained an introduction by fellow Uranian

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. Murray also wrote a bibliography of

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, published in 1900. Murray worked as a printer, bookseller and publisher in

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, London. He printed the works of other Uranians, including

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has acknowledged ''Rondeaux of Boyhood'' as source material for the dialogue of Uncle Monty in

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References

* Smith, Timothy D'Arch. ''Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English "Uranian" Poets from 1889 to 1930.'' Routledge & K. Paul, 1970. {{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Francis Edwin 1854 births 1932 deaths British gay writers English LGBTQ poets English male poets Uranians