Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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Textual Production Selina Davenport
With her second book, The Hypocrite; or, The Modern Janus. A Novel (five volumes in length) SD became a Minerva Press author.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 395
Textual Production Sophia King
The Minerva Press published SK 's (anonymous) second novel, Cordelia; or, A Romance of Real Life.
Her subtitle had been used as title by Charlotte Smith for a translation from French published twelve years before.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
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 Sarah Green
SG 's The Festival of St Jago. A Spanish Romance, in two volumes with the Minerva Press , was one of perhaps four titles in a phenomenally productive year.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 19 (1810): 223
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 322-3
Textual Production Anne Marsh
In fact The Professional Visits of the Black Doctor is translated from Alfred de Vigny 's Les consultations du Docteur-Noir, a series of the 1840s, and Family Pictures; or, The Life of a Poor...
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
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.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1:765
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Elizabeth Bonhote
She published the work in two volumes, with William Lane of the future Minerva Press ,
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
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and for the first time put her name (Mrs. Bonhote of Bungay, Suffolk) on the title-page...
Textual Production Ann Hatton
AH issued through Minerva , anonymously except for reference to her previous works, her four-volume Gonzalo de Baldivia; or, A Widow's Vow. A Romantic Legend, published with 1817 on its title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 447
Textual Production Mary Charlton
MC published through the Minerva Press , with her name, Phedora; or, The Forest of Minski, A Novel.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
273
Textual Features Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More 's Coelebs...
Textual Features Mrs E. M. Foster
This book differs from Foster's first two novels, in that it is shorter (two volumes instead of three or four), not historical but rather a sentimental novel about courtship, and originally published by Minerva as...
Textual Features Mrs E. M. Foster
Judith, the remaining MEMF novel of 1800, is attributed to the author of Rebecca, Miriam, and Fitzmorris &c. There was German translation in 1802.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 115
The incredibly complex plot follows...
Textual Features Charlotte Riddell
The protagonist has an invalid mother. She takes disappointments and setbacks bravely, tramping round one publisher's office after another. Her eventual success brings her the happiness of her own (unshared) country cottage.
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.
The novel includes...
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
Reception Mary Charlton
In this year a Minerva Press catalogue mentioned MC as one of its most popular authors.

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