The title of this work appears to have been particularly unstable. Scholar Dorothy Blakey
saw it advertised in this form, which appears in a Critical Review list (Blakey omits the second the). The English...
Textual Production
Mary Julia Young
A three-volume, anonymous Minerva
novel, The Family Party, 1791, has also been widely ascribed to MJY
since Dorothy Blakey
first made the attribution in 1939 from a Minerva
catalogue of 1814.
Blakey, Dorothy. The Minerva Press 1790-1820. Oxford University Press, 1939, p. 337 pp.
153
This seems...
Textual Production
Anna Maria Mackenzie
The first volume has a frontispiece (two women meeting a man in armour) and the title-page quotes some lines about the insecurity of a throne won through ambition. These are ascribed to Fielding
's Merope...
Timeline
1790: William Lane's publishing firm first took...
Writing climate item
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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Texts
Blakey, Dorothy. The Minerva Press 1790-1820. Oxford University Press, 1939, p. 337 pp.