John Lane

Connections

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Textual Production	John Buchan	While still an undergraduate JB published a collection of essays, Scholar gipsies, in John Lane 's Arcady Library series. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 115 Smith, Janet Adam. John Buchan: A Biography. R. Hart-Davis. 93
Textual Production	Elinor Mordaunt	EM issued a travel book with John Lane : The Venture Book: Impressions of Travel, Chiefly in the Pacific Islands. The same year came The Further Venture Book: Impressions of Travel, Chiefly in the...
Textual Production	Sarojini Naidu	The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death and the Spring, another volume of poems by SN , was published by William Heinemann in London and John Lane in New York. The dedication...
Textual Production	Victoria Cross	Annie Sophie Cory , under the pseudonym Victoria Crosse, published her first novel, The Woman Who Didn't, with the publisher John Lane . Mitchell, Charlotte. Victoria Cross, 1868-1952: A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. 35
Textual Production	E. Nesbit	EN followed her second book of poems with A Pomander of Verse, published by John Lane and dedicated to Marshall Steele , whose writing was influenced by hers. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 153-4
Textual Production	Hannah Lynch	In 1892 HL published with Methuen a translation of The History of Florence from the Domination of the Medici to the Fall of the Republic by François Tommy Perrens (whose title is also given as...
Textual Production	Alice Meynell	AM published with John Lane her first collection of essays, entitled The Rhythm of Life; they had first appeared in the Scots Observer. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 88, 97
Textual Production	Alice Meynell	AM agreed to the re-issue of Preludes by John Lane in 1892 under the title Poems, with the addition of Renouncement and Veni Creator (1890), a poem about the death of her five-month-old son...
Textual Features	Naomi Mitchison	NM approached Victor Gollancz as an alternative to Cape; he seriously admired the book but declined it for fear of offending many of my best friends Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz. 177 and damaging his effectiveness as a publisher of...
Textual Features	Laurence Hope	Among the more striking poems in the volume is Oh, Life, I Have Taken You for My Lover!, dedicated to the writer Arthur E. J. Legge , who also published with John Lane and...
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 . 172
Publishing	Rupert Brooke	1914 and Other Poems became a bestseller. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 110 There were two New York editions of The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke in 1915: one from Dodd, Mead and one from John Lane . The pagination...
Publishing	Agatha Christie	After publishing her first novel, John Lane held rights to her next five books: The Secret Adversary (1922), The Murder on the Links (1923), The Man in the Brown Suit (1924), Poirot Investigates (1924), and...
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

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 .

Texts

Ann, Lady Fanshawe,. The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe. Editor Fanshawe, Herbert Charles, John Lane, 1907.

Bennett, Arnold. Journalism for Women. A Practical Guide. John Lane, 1898.

Bowen, Marjorie. General Crack. John Lane, 1928.

Omar Khayyám,. The Ruba’yat of Omar Khayam. Editor Garnett, Richard, Translator Cadell, Jessie Ellen, John Lane, 1899.

Cannan, Joanna, and Anne Bullen. A Pony for Jean. John Lane, 1936.

Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Preface”. The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, edited by Alexander Carlyle, John Lane, 1909, p. 1: v - xi.

Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Sir James Crichton-Browne. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and Alexander Carlyle, John Lane, 1903.

Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh. Editor Carlyle, Alexander, John Lane, 1909.

Crichton-Browne, Sir James, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Introduction”. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Thomas Carlyle et al., John Lane, 1903, p. 1: v - lxxxvii.

Crommelin, May. One Pretty Maid and Others. John Lane, 1904.

Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Some Whims of Fate. John Lane, 1896.

Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. The Beautiful Lady Craven. Editors Saul, Benjamin Lewis and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, John Lane, 1914.

Forbes, Rosita. Unconducted Wanderers. John Lane, 1919.

Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier. John Lane, 1915.

Frankau, Pamela. Tassel-Gentle. John Lane, 1934.

Garnett, Richard et al. “Introduction”. The Ruba’yat of Omar Khayam, edited by Richard Garnett, translated by. Jessie Ellen Cadell, John Lane, 1899, p. v - xxx.

Gibbes, Phebe. Heaven’s Best Gift. John Lane, 1797.

Holtby, Winifred. Anderby Wold. John Lane, 1923.

Holtby, Winifred. The Crowded Street. John Lane, 1924.

Hope, Laurence. India’s Love Lyrics. John Lane, 1912.

Hunt, Violet, and Ford Madox Ford. Zeppelin Nights. John Lane, 1916.

Johnson, Pauline. The White Wampum. John Lane, 1895.

Kavan, Anna. A Stranger Still. John Lane, 1935.

Lee, Vernon, and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson. Beauty and Ugliness. John Lane, 1912.

Lee, Vernon. Satan the Waster. John Lane, 1920.