Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

Elizabeth Thomas published eight novels with the Minerva Press , the last of which appeared just as she was trying out another publisher. She issued all these novels under the name of Bridget Bluemantle (almost...

An advertisement listed the novel as forthcoming on 30 June. The next year saw both a Dublin edition and a Minerva Press one (which bibliographer Deborah McLeod knew only from an advertisement, with the author...

Maria Edgeworth wrote of SW on meeting her: This poor girl sold a novel in four volumes for ten guineas to Lane of the Minerva Press .

JW published with the Minerva Press , under the name of the fictional Prudentia Homespun, The Advantages of Education, or, The History of Maria Williams. A Tale for Misses and their Mammas.

MJY published with the Minerva Press her first novel, Rose-Mount Castle; or, False Report, in three volumes, with her name as M. J. Young.

A three-volume, anonymous Minerva novel, The Family Party, 1791, has also been widely ascribed to MJY since Dorothy Blakey first made the attribution in 1939 from a Minerva catalogue of 1814. This seems...