Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993.
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John Lane
Standard Name: Lane, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | GE
had her only child in November 1895: a son named George Clairmonte. He died in action in September1915, probably on the 26th: he had been holding the foremost trench captured from the Germans and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | Among recent commentarors, White implies that both GE
's publisher, John Lane
, and his reader, Richard Le Gallienne
, were attracted to her, while Stetz suggests, without denying their attraction, that GE
deliberately engaged... |
| 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 | Gertrude Stein | |
| Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | ES
wrote later that at no time in her life did she make intimate friends easily. Most people she had to do with she liked up to a certain point only, but she could count... |
| Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | AL
's circle of friends comprised writers and artists who were to lend the . . . decade its peculiarly distinctive air: |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Rosamund Marriott Watson | According to Angela Leighton
, the social scandal that erupted in the wake of RMW
's adultery and second divorce not only created a rift in private between the writer and many of her friends... |
| 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. qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 135 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | George Egerton | Pleased with the book's success, Lane
introduced a fiction series named after it: Keynotes. Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 30 , No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1997, pp. 89-107. 91 |
| 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... |
| 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, 2002. 16 |
| Publishing | George Egerton | 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, 1958. 28 |
Timeline
September 1887: Charles Elkin Mathews, with John Lane as...
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September 1887
Charles Elkin Mathews
, with John Lane
as his silent partner, founded Bodley Head
publishing house in Vigo Street, Mayfair, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
19
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
55
1890s: John Lane of Bodley Head established the...
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1890s
John Lane
of Bodley Head
established the Eve's Library series.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
42
1893: Vale Press was founded as a printing house...
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1893
Vale Press
was founded as a printing house in Chelsea, London, by Charles De Sousy Ricketts
; its first two books were published by John Lane
.
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
150
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
334
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
165
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
122
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
325
Sources vary...
April 1894: Aubrey Beardsley became art editor of The...
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April 1894
Aubrey Beardsley
became art editor of The Yellow Book, published by John Lane
at Bodley Head
.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
119-20
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
163
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
40
From 30 September 1894: Charles Elkin Mathews continued publishing...
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From 30 September 1894
Charles Elkin Mathews
continued publishing independently at 6B Vigo Street, London, after the dissolution of his partnership with John Lane
of Bodley Head
.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
42, 204-5
1896: American Elizabeth Robbins Pennell challenged...
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1896
American Elizabeth Robbins Pennell challenged the widespread notion that a hearty appetite for food was unfeminine in The Feasts of Autolycus: The Diary of a Greedy Woman.
Michie, Helena. The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women’s Bodies. Oxford University Press, 1987.
17, 152
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