John Lane (14 March 1854 – 2 February 1925) was a British publisher who co-founded The Bodley Head with Charles Elkin Mathews.

[1] John Lane was born into a farming family in West Putford, Devon on 14 March 1854.

Examples are the periodical The Yellow Book (1894–1897) and Lane's Keynotes Series,[5] which included contentious material such as Grant Allen's novel The Woman Who Did (1895), Victoria Crosse's immediate reaction to it, the novel The Woman Who Didn't (1895), and H. G. Wells's novel about his affair with Amber Reeves, The New Machiavelli (1911).

John Lane died at his London home, 8 Lancaster Gate Terrace, Bayswater, on 2 February 1925, during a bout of influenza.

[2][3] He was cremated at Golders Green, and his ashes were interred at St Nectan's Church in the hamlet of Stoke, near Hartland, Devon.