John Lane

Standard Name: Lane, John

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Publishing George Egerton
GE 's publishing relationship with Lane ended in 1898 over poor sales of her later titles and Bodley Head 's increasing demands for more popular, accessible work.Grant Richards (who like her had published in...
Publishing Florence Farr
The manuscript was rejected by Unwin and Heinemann before her friend John Lane accepted it for somewhat questionable reasons: It is always very pleasant to accept the MS of a new riter [sic] but it...
Publishing James Joyce
JJ learned that Ulysses would not be prosecuted in England, and an agreement was struck with John Lane to publish. Because of printers' protests against some passages, the book did not appear until 1936.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
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Publishing Alice Meynell
Poet and editor W. E. Henley , printing the title essay in the Scots Observer, called it one of the best things it has so far been my privilege to print.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Henley introduced...
Publishing Ethel Savi
John Lane asked her to meet his reader, M. P. (Mary Patricia) Willcocks (herself the author of some very clever novels), who suggested that ES should rewrite her manuscript.
Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson.
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M. P. Willcocks was...
Publishing George Egerton
John Lane published GE 's first translation: Ola Hansson 's allegorical prose poems entitled Young Ofeg's Ditties,
Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 89-107.
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originally written in Swedish.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 Evelyn Sharp
Lane accepted the novel in November 1894 for his series called after George Egerton 's Keynotes.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869–1955. Manchester University Press.
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It appeared on the recommendation of Lane's readers John Davidson and Richard Le Gallienne , with Aubrey Beardsley
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.
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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.
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She then sent it to John Lane at...
Reception George Egerton
GE tended not to read reviews of her works: she claimed to have a kind of contempt for English criticisms.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.
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She also abhorred the idea of giving interviews or having her picture printed in...
Reception George Egerton
Both lauded and lambasted, GE was a sexually radical writer who challenged English reserve and literary reticence through the directness of her treatment of female desire.
Ledger, Sally. The New Woman. Manchester University Press.
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But after all her popularity and notoriety at...
Textual Production Rosamund Marriott Watson
The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson were posthumously published by John Lane at the Bodley Head .
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.
Watson, H. B. Marriott, and Rosamund Marriott Watson. “Introduction”. The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson, John Lane, Bodley Head, p. vii - ix.
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Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
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...
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
John Lane of the Bodley Head published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA .
The title, from Jacques' Seven Ages of Man speech in William ShakespeareAs You Like It...

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