Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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Textual Production Elizabeth Meeke
The Minerva Press published The Wonder of the Village. A Novel, apparently revised for print by EM from the draft of an unnamed woman writer who died without finishing it.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 217-18
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
Author summary Elizabeth Meeke
EM , who was not correctly identified until 2013, was unusually prolific among novelists (twenty-six titles), children's writers, and translators of the Romantic period. (She also compiled an anthology for children.) She issued through the...
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...
Reception Elizabeth Meeke
EM 's books sold in the USA and Canada as well as in Britain. Their readers included Mary Russell Mitford and Thomas Babington Macaulay . He called them absurd and his own taste for them...
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...
Textual Production Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
Henrietta Rouviere 's first novel, Lussington Abbey, in two volumes, appeared under her birth name through the Minerva Press .
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
Publishing Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
HRM issued in her birth name and by (mostly Irish) subscription through the Minerva Press a novel she had been trying to publish for some years: A Peep at our Ancestors. An Historical Romance...
Publishing Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
The Minerva Press advertised HRM 's new novel, Arrivals from India, or Time's a Great Master, with her married name and mention of previous works, and with highly selective quotes from the Critical Review...
Publishing Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
HRM called herself Mrs Mosse late Henrietta Rouviere (and mentioned all of her five previous books) on the title-page of her novel A Bride and No Wife, advertised this day in four volumes with...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
Amelia Alderson (later AO ) published anonymously, with William Lane (who this year launched the Minerva Press ), her first novel, Dangers of Coquetry, in two volumes.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Emma Parker
EP published in two volumes with the Minerva Press , as Emma De Lisle, A Soldier's Offspring; or The Sisters. A Tale.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 18 (1809): 223
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...
Publishing Eliza Parsons
EP switched from Hookham to William Lane of the Minerva Press for her second, heavily didactic novel, The Errors of Education.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2nd ser. 3 (1791): 234
Dedications Eliza Parsons
EP issued another work through the Minerva Press : The Girl of the Mountains. A Novel, dedicated to Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester , a niece of the king and the daughter of a...

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