John Lane (publisher)

John Lane (publisher)

John Lane (14 March 1854 - 2 February 1925) was a British publisher.

Biography

Originally from Devon, where he was born into a farming family, Lane moved to London already in his teens. While working as a clerk at the Railway Clearing House, he acquired knowledge as an autodidact.

After entering the London book trade he became co-founder of The Bodley Head, originally a firm that dealt with antiquarian books. They later went into publishing. Lane is mainly associated with publishing controversial and audacious texts, especially for a small, sophisticated audience. Examples are the periodical "The Yellow Book" (1894 - 1897) and Lane's "Keynote Series", which included contentious material such as Grant Allen's novel "The Woman Who Did" (1895) and Victoria Crosse's immediate reaction to it, the novel "The Woman Who Didn't" (1895).

Lane died in 1925. His nephew, Allen Lane, founded Penguin Books.

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