Background
Murray"s parents were the classical scholar Gilbert Murray Member of the Order of Merit (1866-1957) and Lady Mary Henrietta Howard (1865–1956), daughter of George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle.
Murray"s parents were the classical scholar Gilbert Murray Member of the Order of Merit (1866-1957) and Lady Mary Henrietta Howard (1865–1956), daughter of George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle.
Her first novel, The Leading Note, was published before she turned twenty, in 1910. East.M. Forster wrote of it to Malcolm Darling in 1911, "The best novels I have come across in the past year are Rosalind Murray"s The Leading Note and Wedgwood"s Shadow of a Titan." This was followed by Moonseed (1911), Unstable Ways (1914), The Happy Tree (1926, republished in 2014 by Persephone Books) and Hard Liberty (1929), as well as The Greeks (1931), a history book for children with a preface written by her father. Rosalind married historian Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) in 1913.
They had three sons together: Arnold, Lawrence and Philip Toynbee.