Sanders, Dennis, and Len Lovallo. The Agatha Christie Companion. Delacorte.
9-10
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Textual Production | Agatha Christie | AC
's first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (introducing her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot), was published in London by John Lane
at Bodley Head
and copyrighted as 1920. Sanders, Dennis, and Len Lovallo. The Agatha Christie Companion. Delacorte. 9-10 |
Publishing | Agatha Christie | It was rejected by six publishers before Lane
contracted for it, paying AC
no advance or royalties until two thousand five hundred copies had been sold. She earned £25 in all from this edition. The... |
Publishing | Victoria Cross | VC
began her literary career by sending manuscripts of the novel The Refiner's Fire and short story Different Views to 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. 16 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Victoria Cross | Reviews of Theodora were mixed. Janet Hogarth
, in a Fortnightly Review article titled Literary Degenerates, and B. A. Crackanthorpe
in Nineteenth Century, criticised the story's representation of sexual desire. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 135 |
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 |
Textual Production | Ella D'Arcy | Letters from EDA
to John Lane
, now in the Clark Library
in Los Angeles, were edited by Allan Anderson
in 1990. |
Textual Production | Ella D'Arcy | John Lane
of the Bodley Head
(publisher of The Yellow Book and one of the most innovative in the business during the 1890s) issued Monochromes, the first of two volumes which between them contain... |
Textual Production | Ella D'Arcy | John Lane
of the Bodley Head
published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA
. The title, from Jacques' Seven Ages of Man speech in William ShakespeareAs You Like It... |
Textual Production | Ella D'Arcy | EDA
's last book was her translation into English of Ariel, the biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley
written by André Maurois
, published, like her other books, by John Lane
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 43576 (15 February 1924): 17 Clarke, John Stock. Ella D’Arcy. |
Occupation | Ella D'Arcy | Prevented by her eyesight from pursuing a career in art, she turned to writing, setting out with stories for magazines. Her low output has been attributed to her being indolent or a procrastinator or both.... |
Occupation | Ella D'Arcy | As well as a writer, EDA
was an editor, assistant to Henry Harland
on the avant-garde Yellow Book, published by John Lane
of the Bodley Head
. Sources agree on this, though she herself... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ella D'Arcy | EDA
may have had affairs with several literary men: Henry Harland
, her editor; John Lane
, her publisher; and M. P. Shiel
, who, like her, contributed to Lane's Keynotes series. The possibility that... |
Friends, Associates | Ella D'Arcy | Lane
and Harland
were centres of literary social life in London. EDA
had many friends among writers, many of them New Women. They included Evelyn Sharp
, and Constance Smedley
(who found her entirely sincere... |
Textual Production | George Egerton | GE
published a fourth volume of stories in John Lane
's Keynotes series, this one entitled Fantasias, dedicated to Richard Le Gallienne
, with a title-page date of 1898. It was advertised among Books... |
Textual Production | George Egerton | John Lane
, at the Bodley Head
, included a rather self-consciously clever sketch by GE
in the first issue of The Yellow Book, Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press. 28 Gerber, Helmut E., editor. The English Short Story in Transition, 1880-1920. Pegasus. 131 |
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