John Lane

Standard Name: Lane, John

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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...
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...
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, pp. 89-107.
91
The series included Grant Allen 's The Woman Who Did and The British Barbarians: A Hill-Top Novel (both 1895),...
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.
32
She also abhorred the idea of giving interviews or having her picture printed in...
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...
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...
Textual Production George Egerton
In a letter written to her second husband on 16 August 1906, GE mentions an autobiography which she was writing for publication but which never appeared: I think if it were finished, Murray or someone...
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 George Egerton
GE published a fourth volume of stories in John Lane 's Keynotes series, this one entitled Fantasias, dedicated to Richard Le Gallienne , with a title-page date of 1898.
It was advertised among Books...
Textual Production George Egerton
John Lane , at the Bodley Head , included a rather self-consciously clever sketch by GE in the first issue of The Yellow Book,
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.
28
one of two she contributed to this journal during its run.
Gerber, Helmut E., editor. The English Short Story in Transition, 1880-1920. Pegasus.
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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.
30
, No. 1, pp. 89-107.
97
originally written in Swedish.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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...
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
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 .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
43576 (15 February 1924): 17
Clarke, John Stock. Ella D’Arcy.
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....

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