Jane Lane (author)

Jane Lane (1905–1978) was the pen name of Elaine Kidner Dakers.

Writings

Lane was a British historical novelist and biographer, distantly descended from the Jane Lane who aided Charles II after his defeat at Worcester. She is best known for her books about the Stuart period and 18th-century Scotland, written from a Catholic and Royalist perspective.

A State of Mind is unique among her books, being set in a dystopian future.[1]

The Tablet, a progressive Catholic international weekly, has described her as "one of the few contemporary writers who excel both as novelists and historians".[2]

Selected works

Novels

The Escape series (for younger readers)

Non-fiction

  • King James the Last (1942)
  • Titus Oates (1949)
  • Puritan, Rake and Squire (1950)

References

  1. Information from covers of Dark Conspiracy and other titles published by The House of Stratus.
  2. Jacket of Peter Davies's re-issue of Conies in the Hay, 1973.
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