Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

Connections

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Dedications	Eliza Parsons	EP issued another work through the Minerva Press : The Girl of the Mountains. A Novel, dedicated to Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester , a niece of the king and the daughter of a...
Dedications	Isabella Kelly	IK 's Minerva Press novel Eva was advertised as just published. It was dedicated to the Duchess of Gloucester (wife of George III 's next-but-one brother, William Henry , unacknowledged by the royal family because...
Dedications	Anna Maria Mackenzie	AMM 's Minerva novel Mysteries Elucidated, dedicated to the newly married Caroline, Princess of Wales, was advertised by the Minerva Press . The title-page merely listed some of the author's previous works, but...
Dedications	Isabella Kelly	IK , as Catherine Harris, published with Minerva Press an epistolary novel, Edwardina, dedicated to Mrs Souter Johnston . IK told the Royal Literary Fund she was the author of this novel. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. Bibliographers...
Dedications	Barbara Hofland	BH published, with the Minerva Press , dedicated by permission to the queen , A Visit to London; or, Emily and her Friends. A Novel. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 4th ser. 6 (1814): 104 Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992. 4
Dedications	Ann Hatton	AH , as Ann of Swansea, published with the Minerva PressConviction; or, She Is Innocent! A Novel, respectfully dedicated to an unnamed Friend (male). qtd. in Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 398
Dedications	Anna Maria Mackenzie	AMM made her only use of a pseudonym, Ellen of Exeter, to publish another gothic Minerva Press novel, The Neapolitan, or The Test of Integrity, dedicated to the dramatist Richard Cumberland . Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 684
Dedications	Ann Hatton	AH published with Minerva , as Anne of Swansea, Secret Avengers; or, The Rock of Glotzden. A Romance, in four volumes, dedicated to the actress and author Catherine Smith . Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 415
Dedications	Regina Maria Roche	RMR dated a dedication to the second edition of The Vicar of Lansdowne, published by the Minerva Press . McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997. 296
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Robinson	MR 's daughter grew up to be a writer, and to publish two books under her own name as well as revising and editing work by MR . Hers are the gothic, epistolary Minerva novel...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Hervey	The Critical Reviewread this pleasing and interesting story as an imitation of Burney 's Cecilia.If there is a fault, it suggested, it was the structural fault of raising and solving one difficulty...
Literary responses	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	The Times did indeed review it, and using the extended metaphor of a hunt, pronounced it a good galloping novel . . . to be enjoyed rather than criticised, Times. Times Publishing Company. (18 November 1862): 4 and praised...
Author summary	Eleanor Sleath	ES was a popular novelist who published six titles, mostly with the Minerva Press , in little more than a decade, having begun just before the close of the eighteenth century. She sometimes intersperses poetry...
Author summary	Elizabeth Meeke	EM , who was not correctly identified until 2013, was unusually prolific among novelists (twenty-six titles), children's writers, and translators of the Romantic period. (She also compiled an anthology for children.) She issued through the...
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...

Timeline

By 1784

William Lane , who had been active in the London book trade since 1763, was soliciting novels to publish.

McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.

1790

William Lane 's publishing firm first took the name Minerva Press , in the same year that his Minerva Circulating Library (linked with his publishing activities) issued its first catalogue. This listed more than 10,000 titles.

McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.

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By June 1797

The unidentified Mrs Carver published one of her two novels this year with the Minerva Press : Elizabeth. The other is the distinctly gruesome The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey.

Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.

1: 709-10, 741; 2: 111

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