William Lane (1746 – 1814) was an English publisher and bookseller in
London
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, best known now for his founding of the wildly successful
Minerva Press
Minerva Press was a publishing house, notable for creating a lucrative market in sentimental and Gothic fiction, active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (1790–1820). It was established by William Lane (c. 1745–1814) at No 33 Lead ...
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Career
Around 1790, Lane established the
Minerva Printing Press in Cree Church Lane,
Leadenhall Street
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, moving to no. 31 Leadenhall Street.
The Minerva Press issued works by
Courtney Melmoth
Samuel Jackson Pratt (25 December 1749 – 4 October 1814) was a prolific English poet, dramatist and novelist, writing under the pseudonym of "Courtney Melmoth" as well as under his own name. He authored around 40 publications between 1770 a ...
and others.
Subscribers to Lane's Circulating Library (established circa 1774) included
Leigh Hunt
James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.
Hunt co-founded '' The Examiner'', a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre ...
. Around 1799 John Darling and Anthony King Newman joined Lane as "Lane, Darling, Newman & Co."
In 1804 Lane retired and Newman took over the business.
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See also
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List of Minerva Press authors
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Minerva Press
Minerva Press was a publishing house, notable for creating a lucrative market in sentimental and Gothic fiction, active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (1790–1820). It was established by William Lane (c. 1745–1814) at No 33 Lead ...
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Publishers (people) from London
English booksellers
Commercial circulating libraries
1746 births
1814 deaths