Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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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...
Publishing Charlotte Smith
Her publisher, Cadell , paid her more than £260 for this novel, which she dedicated to minor royalty in the person of the Duchess of Cumberland .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 485
She had attempted negotiation, instead of...
Textual Features Charlotte Smith
The heroine is a mysterious young widow embittered by her experience of a corrupt guardian and a dissipated husband who betrayed and deserted her. The play mocks literary generic conventions, including those that were CS
Textual Production Elizabeth Strutt
ES published with the Minerva PressThe Borderers, An Historical Romance. Illustrative of the Manners of the Fourteenth Century.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 372
Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Strutt
ES published with the Minerva Press , as Mrs. Strutt, her first work since her second marriage: Genevieve; or, The Orphan's Visit, A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 469
Publishing Elizabeth Strutt
This epistolary novel was issued by Mawman in two volumes. While in Hull, ES wrote the dedication to her mother A second edition was published, undated, by the Minerva Press about 1818.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
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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...
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...
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas published her second novel (her first with the Minerva Press and first under what became her identifying pen-name of Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle): The Three Old Maids of the House of Penruddock.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 240
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas published another Minerva novel as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: The Husband and Wife; or, The Matrimonial Martyr, dated 1808 on its title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 288
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas gave her next Minerva novel (again published as by Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle) an exotic title: Monte Video; or, The Officer's Wife and Her Sister.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 309
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas published another Minerva novel as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: Mortimer Hall; or, The Labourer's Hire.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 355-6
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 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 Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas published her eighth and last Minerva Press title, again as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: Claudine; or, Pertinacity. A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 453-4

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