John Lane

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....

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...

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...

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...

VC began her literary career by sending manuscripts of the novel The Refiner's Fire and short story Different Views to publisher John Lane .

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. The reviewer...

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

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.

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...