After receiving Gill's advice, GE
sent the manuscript to William Heinemann
, who promptly returned it, saying he was not interested in publishing mediocre short stories.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.
VSW
privately printed Constantinople: Eight Poems, an instalment of a volume accepted for publication by John Lane
but postponed on account of the war.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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.
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Smith, Janet Adam. John Buchan: A Biography. R. Hart-Davis.
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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...
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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
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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.
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Texts
Lee, Vernon. The Handling of Words. John Lane, 1923.
Lee, Vernon. Vital Lies. John Lane, 1912.
Meynell, Alice. The Children. John Lane, 1896.
Meynell, Alice. The Colour Of Life. John Lane, 1896.
Meynell, Alice. The Spirit of Place. John Lane, 1898.
Mitchison, Naomi. The Home and a Changing Civilisation. John Lane, 1934.
Mordaunt, Elinor. The Further Venture Book. John Lane, 1926.
Mordaunt, Elinor. The Venture Book. John Lane, 1926.
Nesbit, E. A Pomander of Verse. John Lane, 1895.
Sackville-West, Vita. Orchard and Vineyard. John Lane, 1921.
Sackville-West, Vita. Poems of West and East. John Lane, 1917.
Shore, Louisa Catherine et al. Poems. John Lane, 1897.
Sigerson, Dora. The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems. John Lane, 1898.
St John, Christopher. Ellen Terry. John Lane, 1907.
Wells, H. G. The New Machiavelli. John Lane, 1911.
