John Lane

Standard Name: Lane, John

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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, 2009.
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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
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
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, 1947.
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M. P. Willcocks was...
Publishing George Egerton
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 an...
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. New and Revised, Oxford University Press, 1982.
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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 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.
qtd. in
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Henley introduced...
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 Julia Constance Fletcher
The title-page records publication both in London (in the Mayfair Series from John Lane of the Bodley Head ) and New York (from the Merriam Company ).
Other books in the Mayfair Series were Select...
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, 1 Mar.–31 May 1997, pp. 89-107.
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originally written in Swedish.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Rosamund Marriott Watson
She had entered negotiations with Lane about the book's publication in January 1902: although she was keen for her friend to publish the book, she threatened in a letter to make an abrupt change of...
Reception George Egerton
GE tended not to read reviews of her works: she claimed to have a kind of contempt for English criticisms.
qtd. in
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
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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, 1997.
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But after all her popularity and notoriety at...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
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.
Sanders, Dennis, and Len Lovallo. The Agatha Christie Companion. Delacorte, 1984.
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Textual Production Evelyn Sharp
Evelyn Sharp published with John Lane 's Bodley Head (as Keynotes series No. 13) her very immature novel
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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At the Relton Arms.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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