Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

The author signed her preface as Eliz. Sarah Villa-Real Gooch. A German translation appeared the following year. The Minerva Press seems to have bought this work from Cawthorn , since an advertisement for it...

For some reason the publisher, the Minerva Press , confused Eva of Cambria (whose title-page said 1811) with another novel of that year by Emma Parker . The press placed on Eva of Cambria's...

A second edition was advertised (together with its sequel, The Englishman), in Mrs E. M. Foster 's Substance and Shadow, Minerva 1812.

The second edition was published with Minerva . In her self-depreciating preface to this four-volume novel, IK coyly mentions an unnamed patron. This was in fact Matthew Gregory Lewis , who read her work and...

She may have used two successive publishers. The Critical Review said the publisher was William Lane of the Minerva Press , but the bibliographer Peter Garside and his associates record a copy published by S. Highley

EM 's books sold in the USA and Canada as well as in Britain. Their readers included Mary Russell Mitford and Thomas Babington Macaulay . He called them absurd and his own taste for them...

In this year a Minerva Press catalogue mentioned MC as one of its most popular authors.

The protagonist has an invalid mother. She takes disappointments and setbacks bravely, tramping round one publisher's office after another. Her eventual success brings her the happiness of her own (unshared) country cottage. The novel includes...

This book differs from Foster's first two novels, in that it is shorter (two volumes instead of three or four), not historical but rather a sentimental novel about courtship, and originally published by Minerva as...

Judith, the remaining MEMF novel of 1800, is attributed to the author of Rebecca, Miriam, and Fitzmorris &c. There was German translation in 1802. The incredibly complex plot follows...

The heroine is a mysterious young widow embittered by her experience of a corrupt guardian and a dissipated husband who betrayed and deserted her. The play mocks literary generic conventions, including those that were CS

There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More 's Coelebs...

It appeared in four volumes from the Minerva Press .

SHR published with the Minerva Press the runaway best-seller Charlotte, A Tale of Truth, which is better known by its later title of Charlotte Temple; this time she published without her name.

BH published, with A. K. Newman (successor to the Minerva Press ) The Young Crusoe; or, The Shipwrecked Boy, dated 1829 on its title-page.