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William Lane
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Standard Name: Lane, William,, 1745 - 1814
Connections
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Textual Production | Amelia Opie | Amelia Alderson (later AO
) published anonymously, with William Lane
(who this year launched the Minerva Press
), her first novel, Dangers of Coquetry, in two volumes. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bonhote | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bonhote | EB
published her next novel, Ellen Woodley, again with William Lane
and in the first year of the Minerva Press
. It bore her name and previous titles, but had no preface. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 69 (1790): 592 McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta. 4 |
Textual Production | Mrs F. C. Patrick | MFCP
anonymously published the first of her three books, The Irish Heiress, A Novel, with William Lane
of the Minerva Press
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 724 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bonhote | She published the work in two volumes, with William Lane
of the future Minerva Press
, McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta. 4 |
Textual Production | Mary Ann Radcliffe | William Lane
(who this year renamed his publishing firm the Minerva Press
) issued an anonymous novel, Radzivil, A Romance, which was unconvincingly assigned to MAR
in a Minerva catalogue of 1802. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 69 (1790): 118 McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta. 4 McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta. 205 |
Textual Production | Mary Ann Radcliffe | William Lane
issued another anonymous novel, The Fate of Velina de Guidova, which a much later Minerva Press
catalogue (1814) ascribed to MAR
—just as unconvincingly as the previous Minerva ascription. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 70 (1790): 96 McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta. 207 |
Textual Production | Eliza Fenwick | As Lissa Paul has pointed out, she wrote not long after the appearance in earlier 1794 of the Second Report from the Committee of Secrecy, a progress report on government snooping into private affairs... |
Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | PG
seems not to have claimed Jemima. A Novel, which was advertised by William Lane
of the Minerva Press
in March 1795 as by the Author of Zoraida. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 641 The near illegibility... |
Textual Production | Margaret Holford | The second volume closes with advertisements for works forthcoming by subscription, including Emily Frederick Clark
's Ianthé, said to be then in the press. Holford, Margaret. Calaf, a Persian Tale. Hookham and Carpenter. 2: end pages |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Anna Maria Johnson (later Mackenzie)
gave her name (as Mrs Johnson, Author of Retribution, Gamesters, &c.) on her novel Calista, the first she published with William Lane
of the Minerva Press
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 478 |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
published another novel with Lane
of the Minerva Press
: Swedish Mysteries, or, Hero of the Mines, in three volumes, ostensibly translated from a Swedish manuscript by Johanson Kidderslaw, formerly master of the... |
Textual Production | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | On this date EKM
's husband indicated that the book was still unprinted. Publisher John Litchfield
mentioned it on 15 January 1801 as EKM
's new novel, implying that there had been others. According to... |
Textual Features | Anna Maria Bennett | Ellen in due course makes a loveless marriage to save the family fortunes; she is suspected of sexual crimes, and plumbs the depths of social rejection before being delivered to happy marriage to the son-by-virtual-adoption... |
Publishing | Eliza Parsons | EP
switched from Hookham
to William Lane
of the Minerva Press
for her second, heavily didactic novel, The Errors of Education. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2nd ser. 3 (1791): 234 |
Timeline
By 1784: William Lane, who had been active in the...
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By 1784
William Lane
, who had been active in the London book trade since 1763, was soliciting novels to publish.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
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1 May 1787: William Lane advertised in the Leeds Intelligencer...
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1 May 1787
William Lane
advertised in the Leeds Intelligencer his ready-made package for launching a circulating library: he could provide a stock of books at any price from twenty to five hundred pounds to float such a...
1790: The Royal Literary Fund was established in...
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1790
The Royal Literary Fund
was established in London by David Williamsto relieve literary men of all nations; it made many small grants to women writers.
1790: William Lane's publishing firm first took...
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1790
William Lane
's publishing firm first took the name Minerva Press
, in the same year that his Minerva Circulating Library
(linked with his publishing activities) issued its first catalogue. This listed more than 10,000 titles.
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