Garside, Peter. “The English Novel in the Romantic Era: Consolidation and Dispersal”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 2: 15 - 103.
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William Lane
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Standard Name: Lane, William,, 1745 - 1814
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Susannah Gunning | SG
's Anecdotes of the Delborough Family, A Novel, was in course of being printed at the Minerva Press
. William Lane
took out newspaper advertisements to assert that the novel, now in press... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Helme | EH
had resounding public if not critical success with The Farmer of Inglewood Forest. A Novel, dated 1797. For the first time she published with William Lane
of the Minerva Press
and gave her... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Hervey | Elizabeth Hervey
's anonymous first book, Melissa and Marcia; or, the Sisters: A Novel, issued by William Lane
with a quotation from Akenside
on its title-page, was advertised as published. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 65 (1788): 466 |
| Publishing | Eliza Fenwick | EF
published her epistolary novel Secresy; or, The Ruin on the Rock, through a conger or group of publishers headed by William Lane
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 638 Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361. 8-9 |
| Publishing | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Anna Maria Johnson
had a novel entitled Monmouth
: A Tale, Founded on Historical Facts advertised under this name as soon to be published by William Lane
of the Minerva Press
—even though she had... |
| Publishing | Susanna Watts | Maria Edgeworth
wrote of SW
on meeting her: This poor girl sold a novel in four volumes for ten guineas to Lane of the Minerva Press
. Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook. 11 Feb. 1834. |
| Publishing | Charlotte Smith | Her publisher, Cadell
, paid her more than £260 for this novel, which she dedicated to minor royalty in the person of the Duchess of Cumberland
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 485 |
| Publishing | Mary Martha Sherwood | She sold the copyright to William Lane
for £40. Writing it, she said, was very useful training. Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854. 216 |
| Publishing | Eliza Parsons | EP
switched from Hookham
to William Lane
of the Minerva Press
for her second, heavily didactic novel, The Errors of Education. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2nd ser. 3 (1791): 234 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | She may have used two successive publishers. The Critical Review said the publisher was William Lane
of the Minerva Press
, but the bibliographer Peter Garside
and his associates record a copy published by S. Highley |
| Textual Features | Anna Maria Bennett | Ellen in due course makes a loveless marriage to save the family fortunes; she is suspected of sexual crimes, and plumbs the depths of social rejection before being delivered to happy marriage to the son-by-virtual-adoption... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Bonhote | |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Bonhote | EB
published her next novel, Ellen Woodley, again with William Lane
and in the first year of the Minerva Press
. It bore her name and previous titles, but had no preface. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 69 (1790): 592 McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997. 4 |
| Textual Production | Margaret Holford | The second volume closes with advertisements for works forthcoming by subscription, including Emily Frederick Clark
's Ianthé, said to be then in the press. Holford, Margaret, the younger. Calaf, a Persian Tale. Hookham and Carpenter, 1798, 2 vols. 2: end pages |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Bonhote | She published the work in two volumes, with William Lane
of the future Minerva Press
, McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997. 4 |
Timeline
By 1784: William Lane, who had been active in the...
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By 1784
William Lane
, who had been active in the London book trade since 1763, was soliciting novels to publish.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
3
1 May 1787: William Lane advertised in the Leeds Intelligencer...
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1 May 1787
William Lane
advertised in the Leeds Intelligencer his ready-made package for launching a circulating library: he could provide a stock of books at any price from twenty to five hundred pounds to float such a...
1790: William Lane's publishing firm first took...
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1790
William Lane
's publishing firm first took the name Minerva Press
, in the same year that his Minerva Circulating Library
(linked with his publishing activities) issued its first catalogue. This listed more than 10,000 titles.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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1790: The Royal Literary Fund was established in...
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1790
The Royal Literary Fund
was established in London by David Williamsto relieve literary men of all nations; it made many small grants to women writers.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
366
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
744
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Batchelor, Jennie. “The Man of Genius and the Female Drudge: Labour, Gender, Authorship and the Royal Literary Fund”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 31 Mar. 2005.
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