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.
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, |
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. |
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 | |
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 |
Publishing | Amelia Beauclerc |
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