Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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Author summary Selina Davenport
Although or because she was harrassed by poverty, SD published, between 1813 and 1834, eleven novels (mostly with the Minerva Press ) which the Feminist Companion calls effective if stereotyped,
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
as well as mostly unidentified...
Author summary Mary Charlton
Active at the end of the eighteenth century and the first several decades of the nineteenth, MC published a dozen historical or exotic romances and socially critical novels. The former made her one of the...
Author summary Regina Maria Roche
RMR had great success as a popular Irish novelist and leading Minerva Press author, using her own name and often listing her previous titles. She also published a couple of novellas, though most of the...
Author summary Henrietta Sykes
HS published two novels and a collection of shorter fictions with the Minerva Press during the early nineteenth century. She did not put her name on title-pages. A volume of poems and songs has been...
Author summary Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
HRM published about ten novels and a volume of short fiction with the Minerva Press and its successor during the early nineteenth century; writing at first for pleasure, then out of increasingly desperate financial need...
Author summary Ann Hatton
Besides her poems and opera librettos dating from the late eighteenth century, AH published with the Minerva Press fourteen novels or romances as Ann (or Anne) of Swansea, beginning in 1810. A highly intelligent though...
Publishing Eliza Parsons
EP switched from Hookham to William Lane of the Minerva Press for her second, heavily didactic novel, The Errors of Education.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 3 (1791): 234
Publishing Susanna Watts
Maria Edgeworth wrote of SW on meeting her: This poor girl sold a novel in four volumes for ten guineas to Lane of the Minerva Press .
Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook. 11 Feb. 1834.
Publishing Elizabeth Gunning
Another edition followed from the Minerva Press in 1812, which is the only one listed by OCLC WorldCat.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 329
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Sarah Green alleged the following year that this was not original, but a translation...
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The Minerva Press edition of 1801, not listed in OCLC WorldCat or the British Library catalogue, survives in a few copies (one of which is in the University of Alberta library at Edmonton). An...
Publishing Elizabeth Bonhote
Apparently this was her second novel; the title-page of Olivia mentions one entitled Hortensia, which seems not to survive. The Rambles of Mr. Frankly was advertised as soon to appear in July. By July...
Publishing Elizabeth Helme
This was advertised at the beginning of April, and reviewed in May (later than EH 's other book of this year, Plutarch's Lives Abridged). It was reprinted by A. K. Newman at the Minerva Press
Publishing Isabella Kelly
As the author of Madeline, of [sic] the Castle of Montgomery, IK published through Minerva her second novel, The Abbey of St. Asaph, in three volumes.
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
Publishing Catherine Cuthbertson
It came out in four volumes from Robinson , but many copies were burned in a warehouse fire. After this The Lady's Magazine reprinted it as a serial beginning in February 1804.
Mayo, Robert. The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815. Northwestern University Press, 1962.
232
Robinson re-issued...
Publishing Amelia Beauclerc
Perhaps because of the mixup caused by Minerva , AB chose Crosby to publish her next novel, The Castle of Tariffa; or, The Self-Banished Man—they published as well her next, Alinda; or, The Child...

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