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 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...
Publishing Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
An advertisement listed the novel as forthcoming on 30 June. The next year saw both a Dublin edition and a Minerva Press one (which bibliographer Deborah McLeod knew only from an advertisement, with the author...
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
It was published in two volumes. A Minerva edition is undated; a New York edition came out in 1808.
Publishing Isabella Kelly
IK 's third novel, The Ruins of Avondale Priory, was advertised as newly published with the Minerva Press in three volumes.
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.
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Robinson re-issued...
Publishing Anna Maria Mackenzie
Anna Maria Johnson had a novel entitled Monmouth : A Tale, Founded on Historical Facts advertised under this name as soon to be published by William Lane of the Minerva Press —even though she had...
Publishing Barbara Hofland
The Minerva Press published, with an engraved frontispiece and a title-page saying 1812, BH 's one-volume novel The History of a Clergyman's Widow and her Young Family.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Publishing Elizabeth Meeke
Ducray-Duménil's novel was Jules; ou, Le toit paternel, Paris, 1806, and Cottin's much shorter tale was Elisabeth; ou, Les exilés de Sibérie, published on its own the same year. The Cottin tale (said...
Publishing Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
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...

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