Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821
Connections
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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... |
Dedications | Isabella Kelly | IK
's Minerva Press
novel Eva was advertised as just published. It was dedicated to the Duchess of Gloucester
(wife of George III
's next-but-one brother, William Henry
, unacknowledged by the royal family because... |
Dedications | Isabella Kelly | IK
, as Catherine Harris, published with Minerva Press
an epistolary novel, Edwardina, dedicated to |
Dedications | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
's Minerva
novel Mysteries Elucidated, dedicated to the newly married |
Dedications | Barbara Hofland | BH
published, with the Minerva Press
, dedicated by permission to the queen
, A Visit to London; or, Emily and her Friends. A Novel. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 4th ser. 6 (1814): 104 Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 4 |
Dedications | Ann Hatton | AH
, as Ann of Swansea, published with the Minerva PressConviction; or, She Is Innocent! A Novel, respectfully dedicated to an unnamed Friend (male). Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 398 |
Dedications | Ann Hatton | AH
published with Minerva
, as Anne of Swansea, Secret Avengers; or, The Rock of Glotzden. A Romance, in four volumes, dedicated to the actress and author Catherine Smith
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 415 |
Dedications | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
made her only use of a pseudonym, Ellen of Exeter, to publish another gothic Minerva Press
novel, The Neapolitan, or The Test of Integrity, dedicated to the dramatist Richard Cumberland
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 684 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Times did indeed review it, and using the extended metaphor of a hunt, pronounced it a good galloping novel . . . to be enjoyed rather than criticised, Times. Times Publishing Company. (18 November 1862): 4 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Hervey | The Critical Reviewread this pleasing and interesting story as an imitation of Burney
's Cecilia.If there is a fault, it suggested, it was the structural fault of raising and solving one difficulty... |
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... |
Author summary | Ann Hatton | Besides her poems and opera librettos dating from the late eighteenth century, AH
published with the Minerva Press
fourteen novels or romances as Ann (or Anne) of Swansea, beginning in 1810. A highly intelligent though... |
Author summary | Selina Davenport | Although or because she was harrassed by poverty, SD
published, between 1813 and 1834, eleven novels (mostly with the Minerva Press
) which the Feminist Companion calls effective if stereotyped, 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. |
Timeline
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...
Women writers item
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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