Allen Lane
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Sir Allen Lane was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.
Lane at London Zoo, 1965
The plaque marking the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Penguin Books by Allen Lane at 8 Vigo Street
John Lane (publisher)
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John Lane was a British publisher who co-founded The Bodley Head with Charles Elkin Mathews. He published the Yellow Book literary magazine. He established a New York branch of his publishing business
Allen Lane
…and studied at Bristol Grammar School. In 1919 he joined the publishing company Bodley Head as an apprentice to his uncle and founder of the company John Lane. In the process, he and the rest of his family changed their surname to Lane to retain the childless John Lane's company as a family firm. Lane married…
The Lane Family Seat at St Nectan's Church, Stoke