John 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...

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

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...

John Lane of the Bodley Head (publisher of The Yellow Book and one of the most innovative in the business during the 1890s) issued Monochromes, the first of two volumes which between them contain...

John Lane of the Bodley Head published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA .

EDA 's last book was her translation into English of Ariel, the biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley written by André Maurois , published, like her other books, by 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...

Letters from EDA to John Lane , now in the Clark Library in Los Angeles, were edited by Allan Anderson in 1990.

GE tended not to read reviews of her works: she claimed to have a kind of contempt for English criticisms. She also abhorred the idea of giving interviews or having her picture printed in...

Her friendship with Lane , who published this collection, began to sour over the course of its writing. In a letter to him on 10 November 1896, GE acknowledged that the volume might not be...