Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Mrs F. C. Patrick
MFCP anonymously published the first of her three books, The Irish Heiress, A Novel, with William Lane of the Minerva Press .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Publishing Annabella Plumptre
AP published an anonymous novel with the Minerva Press : Montgomery; or, Scenes in Wales; it was advertised for sale on this day.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
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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 Mary Ann Radcliffe
William Lane (who this year renamed his publishing firm the Minerva Press ) issued an anonymous novel, Radzivil, A Romance, which was unconvincingly assigned to MAR in a Minerva catalogue of 1802.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
69 (1790): 118
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
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McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
205
Textual Production Mary Ann Radcliffe
William Lane issued another anonymous novel, The Fate of Velina de Guidova, which a much later Minerva Press catalogue (1814) ascribed to MAR —just as unconvincingly as the previous Minerva ascription.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
70 (1790): 96
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
207
Textual Production Mary Ann Radcliffe
In 1871 the author of Manfroné (which was reprinted by Minerva Press in 1819 and 1828) was identified in Notes and Queries as a different Mary Ann Radcliffe, who lived in Durham and was a...
Textual Features Charlotte Riddell
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.
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.
The novel includes...
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...
Textual Production Regina Maria Roche
RMR published through the Minerva PressThe Monastery of St. Columb; or, The Atonement, A Novel, in five volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Regina Maria Roche
RMR published through the Minerva Press , with her name, a historical novel entitled Trecothick Bower; or, The Lady of the West Country. A Tale; the title-page said 1814.
Bibliographers Deborah McLeod and...
Textual Production Regina Maria Roche
RMR published, with A. K. Newman (who was no longer using the Minerva Press name), a double work entitled Bridal of Dunamore; and, Lost and Won. Two Tales; the title-page said 1823.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
28 (1822): 269
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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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...
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...
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.
296
Publishing Regina Maria Roche
Advertisements appeared for RMR 's recently-published novel The Children of the Abbey, A Tale, her first Minerva Press work and her greatest success.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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