Editing Andrew Lang (section)

=== Other writings ===
Lang's earliest publication was a volume of metrical experiments, ''The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France'' (1872), and this was followed at intervals by other volumes of dainty verse: ''Ballades in Blue China'' (1880, enlarged edition, 1888); ''Ballads and Verses Vain'' (1884), selected by Mr [[Henry Austin Dobson|Austin Dobson]]; ''Rhymes à la Mode'' (1884); ''Grass of Parnassus'' (1888); ''Ban and Arrière Ban'' (1894); and ''New Collected Rhymes'' (1905).<ref name="EB1911"/> His 1890 collection, ''Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody'', contains letters combining characters from different sources, in what is now known as a [[Crossover (fiction)|crossover]], including one based on [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'' and [[Charlotte Brontë]]'s ''[[Jane Eyre]]''—an early example of a published derivative work based on Austen.<ref>{{cite book |author=Sarah Glosson |title=Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom |publisher=[[Louisiana State University Press]] |year=2020 |pages=49–51 |isbn=9780807173350}} [[Project MUSE]] [https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76001 76001]</ref>

Lang was active as a journalist in various ways, ranging from sparkling "leaders" for the ''Daily News'' to miscellaneous articles for the ''Morning Post'', and for many years he was literary editor of ''[[Longman's Magazine]]''; no critic was in more request, whether for occasional articles and introductions to new editions or as editor of dainty reprints.<ref name="EB1911"/>

He edited ''The Poems and Songs of [[Robert Burns]]'' (1896), and was responsible for the ''Life and Letters'' (1897) of [[John Gibson Lockhart|JG Lockhart]], and ''The Life, Letters and Diaries'' (1890) of [[Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh|Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh]]. Lang discussed literary subjects with the same humour and acidity that marked his criticism of fellow folklorists, in ''Books and Bookmen'' (1886), ''Letters to Dead Authors'' (1886), ''Letters on Literature'' (1889), etc.<ref name="EB1911"/>