John Lane

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Victoria Cross
Little of the critical speculation about the genealogy of The Woman Who Didn't has been confirmed. Charlotte Mitchell posits that the risqué subject matter of the novel VC produced after signing a contract with Lane
Publishing E. Nesbit
Biographer Julia Briggs believes that the original story was stimulated by EN 's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
The composite book of tales appeared in instalments in The Windsor...
Publishing George Egerton
John Lane published GE 's second short-story collection, Discords, as the sixth title in his Keynotes series.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. White, Terence de VereEditor , Richards Press, 1958.
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OCLC WorldCat.
Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and Its Contributors. Greenwood Press, 1969.
173
Publishing E. Nesbit
EN 's other story volumes include Homespun, 1896 (her second book written for the publisher Lane , for a series to a special design which embraces their lettering, covers, and frontispieces), The Literary Sense...
Publishing George Egerton
After receiving Gill's advice, GE sent the manuscript to William Heinemann , who promptly returned it, saying he was not interested in publishing mediocre short stories.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. White, Terence de VereEditor , Richards Press, 1958.
28
She then sent it to John Lane at...
Publishing Vita Sackville-West
VSW privately printed Constantinople: Eight Poems, an instalment of a volume accepted for publication by John Lane but postponed on account of the war.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
85
Publishing Florence Farr
FF 's first novel, The Dancing Faun, was published by Elkin Mathews and John Lane as part of their Key Note series, with a cover by Aubrey Beardsley .
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975.
58, 63
Farr, Florence. The Dancing Faun. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894.
prelims
Publishing Ethel Savi
ES published her third novel, The Daughter-in-Law, which she had taken to publisher John Lane , making a blind shot at the first name to turn up.
British Library Catalogue.
Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson, 1947.
164
Publishing Laurence Hope
Stars of the Desert, LH 's second volume of poetry, was published by Heinemann in England and John Lane in the USA.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012].
94 (30 October 1903): 314
Publishing Gertrude Stein
GS signed her first bona fide contract with John Lane to publish Three Lives in England.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959.
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Wilson, Robert Alfred. Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography. Phoenix Bookshop, 1974.
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Publishing Laurence Hope
The Garden of Káma was first published in New York in 1902 as India's Love Lyrics: Collected & Arranged in Verse by Laurence Hope by John Lane , who would also publish her next two...
Publishing Rosamund Marriott Watson
Her second husband, Arthur Graham Tomson , designed the cover: an impressionistic painting of the poet surrounded by the garden at their London home in St John's Wood Road.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
When John Lane reissued...
Publishing Pauline Johnson
PJ 's first collection of poetry, The White Wampum, was published by John Lane in London.
Keller, Betty. Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson. Douglas and McIntyre, 1981.
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Gerson, Carole, and Veronica Strong-Boag. Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). University of Toronto Press, 2000.
219
Publishing Phyllis Bottome
It was published by John Lane in London and by Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston and New York. Although PB had been interested in mental illness since childhood, the novel developed more directly from...
Publishing Alice Meynell
AM stopped publishing with John Lane after Oscar Wilde 's conviction.
Schaffer, Talia. The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England. University Press of Virginia , 2000.
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Timeline

2 July 1914
The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis , formally announced the arrival of Vorticism, an avant-garde movement in art.
1917
John Lane published The Candid Courtship, a feministnovel by Madge Mears .