Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Taylor
In this highly satirical treatment of the fashionable novel of the day, the woman-writer-protagonist's publisher Mr Newman (clearly a hit at A. K. Newman of the Minerva Press ) repeatedly reads her works aloud and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emma Parker
It opens with a brief eulogy of military commander John Moore , then moves to soldiers in the story landing at Portsmouth on their return from the Peninsular War. Many are badly wounded; one, a...
Textual Production Regina Maria Roche
The anonymous, two-volume Alvondown Vicarage. A Novel (published by the Minerva Press around the same time as RMR 's The Discarded Son in 1807) was reviewed as by her and is generally attributed to her...
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas published another Minerva novel as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: The Vindictive Spirit.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 373
Textual Production Anna Maria Bennett
AMB published, with the Minerva Press , what seems to be her last novel, the six-volume Vicissitudes Abroad; or, The Ghost of My Father.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 228
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
337
Textual Production Jane Harvey
JH seems to have published two castle novels with the Minerva Press : Minerva Castle, A Tale and Warkfield Castle, A Tale; but no copy of the former has been found, so it may...
Textual Production Elizabeth Meeke
EM used the name of Gabrielli again for Stratagems Defeated. A Novel, which was published by the Minerva Press under its new owner, A. K. Newman .
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 348-9
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young
Textual Production Anne Plumptre
AP published an anonymous novel with the Minerva Press : Antoinette, with a writing heroine.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 16 (1796): 221
Textual Production Helen Craik
HC , as the Author of Adelaide de Narbonne, published Stella of the North; or, The Foundling of the Ship: A Novel, in four volumes with Minerva Press .
A manuscript note in...
Textual Production Isabella Kelly
IK published another Minerva novel, Ruthinglenne; or, The Critical Moment.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
Textual Production Mrs Ross
Mrs Ross , a novelist about whom nothing is known except her works, published anonymously with the Minerva Press her apparently earliest book, The Cousins; or, A Woman's Promise and a Lover's Vow.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 354
Textual Production Anna Maria Mackenzie
After a brief fling with a pseudonym, AMM reverted to her real name for another gothic Minerva novel, Dusseldorf; or, The Fratricide, advertised on this date.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 752
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas , as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle, published her sixth Minerva Press work: The Prison-House; or, The World We Live In. A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 406
Textual Production Jane Harvey
JH published with her name (through Henry Mozley of Gainsborough, but to be sold by Longman of London) Memoirs of an Author.
A Minerva re-issue of this book in 1814 titles it...

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By 1784: William Lane, who had been active in the...

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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.
3

1790: William Lane's publishing firm first took...

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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.

By June 1797: The unidentified Mrs Carver published one...

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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.

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