William Lane

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Standard Name: Lane, William,, 1745 - 1814

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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 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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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
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 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.
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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
Publishing Mary Martha Sherwood
She sold the copyright to William Lane for £40. Writing it, she said, was very useful training.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton.
216
Publishing Charlotte Smith
Her publisher, Cadell , paid her more than £260 for this novel, which she dedicated to minor royalty in the person of the Duchess of Cumberland .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 485
She had attempted negotiation, instead of...
Publishing Susanna Watts
Maria Edgeworth wrote of SW on meeting her: This poor girl sold a novel in four volumes for ten guineas to Lane of the Minerva Press .
Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook.

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