Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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Author summary Isabella Kelly
IK , who published during the very late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century, was a poet and a leading Minerva Press novelist in gothic and other modes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
She also wrote a couple of pedagogic...
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.
as well as mostly unidentified...
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...
Author summary Mary Charlton
Active at the end of the eighteenth century and the first several decades of the nineteenth, MC published a dozen historical or exotic romances and socially critical novels. The former made her one of the...
Publishing Mary Martha Sherwood
Margarita: A Novel by Mary Martha Butts (later MMS ) and published by the Minerva Press , under the name the Author of The Traditions, was advertised as ready for sale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 801
Publishing Medora Gordon Byron
A second edition was advertised (together with its sequel, The Englishman), in Mrs E. M. Foster 's Substance and Shadow, Minerva 1812.
Publishing Elizabeth Helme
EH switched publishers again, to Sampson Low , for another four-volume novel, Albert; or, The Wilds of Strathnavern (which Minerva Press later reprinted).
Some years after this novel appeared, in 1814, all the dwelling-houses in...
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
Publishing Mrs E. M. Foster
The initials E.M.F. first appeared on a title-page with the earlier of two historical novels attributed to MEMF : The Duke of Clarence: An Historical Novel. It was advertised in October 1794, reviewed by...
Publishing Amelia Beauclerc
For some reason the publisher, the Minerva Press , confused Eva of Cambria (whose title-page said 1811) with another novel of that year by Emma Parker . The press placed on Eva of Cambria's...
Publishing Elizabeth Gunning
Another edition followed from the Minerva Press in 1812, which is the only one listed by OCLC WorldCat.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 329
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Sarah Green alleged the following year that this was not original, but a translation...
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The Minerva Press edition of 1801, not listed in OCLC WorldCat or the British Library catalogue, survives in a few copies (one of which is in the University of Alberta library at Edmonton. An...
Publishing Elizabeth Helme
This was advertised at the beginning of April, and reviewed in May (later than EH 's other book of this year, Plutarch's Lives Abridged). It was reprinted by A. K. Newman at the Minerva Press

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