Blakey, Dorothy. The Minerva Press 1790-1820. Oxford University Press, 1939, p. 337 pp.
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Dorothy Blakey
Standard Name: Blakey, Dorothy
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| names | Medora Gordon Byron | Miss Byron is the form in which this writer's name appears on all the books ascribed to her except three bearing the pseudonym A Modern Antique. Bibliographer Dorothy Blakey
called the author of both... |
| Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | The title of this work appears to have been particularly unstable. Scholar Dorothy Blakey
saw it advertised in this form, which appears in a Critical Review list (Blakey omits the second the). The English... |
| Textual Production | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The first volume has a frontispiece (two women meeting a man in armour) and the title-page quotes some lines about the insecurity of a throne won through ambition. These are ascribed to Fielding
's Merope... |
| Textual Production | Mary Julia Young |
Timeline
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.