John Lane

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...

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. She then sent it to John Lane at...

VC began her literary career by sending manuscripts of the novel The Refiner's Fire and short story Different Views to publisher John Lane .

Lane accepted the novel in November 1894 for his series called after George Egerton 's Keynotes. It appeared on the recommendation of Lane's readers John Davidson and Richard Le Gallienne , with Aubrey Beardsley

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.

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

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...

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.

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...

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. Henley introduced...

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...

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...

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. But after all her popularity and notoriety at...

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

John Lane of Bodley Head gave RMW a birthday present by publishing her fifth collection of poetry, After Sunset, on this day (bearing a date of 1904).