John Murray was a Scottish publisher and member of the John Murray publishing house. He published works by authors such as Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Maria Rundell.
Mezzotint portrait of Murray
John Murray
The Prisoner of Chillon
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The Prisoner of Chillon is the title poem of an 1816 collection by Lord Byron. "The Prisoner of Chillon" is a 392-line narrative poem that chronicles the imprisonment of Genevois monk François Bonivar
1816 first edition title page.
The castle dungeon is under Lake Geneva.
Prisoners were chained to the massive pillars in the dungeon.
The Prisoner of Chillon by Eugène Delacroix, 1834