Margaret Minifie

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MM was a minor eighteenth-century sentimental novelist. Her literary career was bound up with that of her sister, and the account reflected in standard reference books has rendered her nearly invisible by assimilating a number of her works to her sister's oeuvre. Bibliographer James Raven refers to the revisionist account in the Feminist Companion, 1990, which sorted out the works of the sisters.
Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 14-117.
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  • BirthName: Margaret Minifie
  • Pseudonym: Miss Minifie
    Different works bear her name either as Miss Minifie and Miss M. Minifie—a discrepancy which may, suspects scholar Betty Schellenberg , carry a meaning not yet decoded.

Milestones

A little before 15 July 1734

MM was born at Fairwater House in her father's parish of Staplegrove near Taunton in Somerset.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Margaret Minifie and Susannah Gunning. 15 Apr. 2016.

1803

What is probably MM 's final work was published after a silence of twenty years: The Union, A Novel.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 1 (1804): 238

11 May 1803

MM was buried at her birthplace, Staplegrove near Taunton in Somerset. She must have died shortly before this.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Margaret Minifie and Susannah Gunning. 15 Apr. 2016.
Bowen, Essex. A Statement of Facts. Printed for J. Debrett, 1791.

Biography

Birth and Background

A little before 15 July 1734

MM was born at Fairwater House in her father's parish of Staplegrove near Taunton in Somerset.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Margaret Minifie and Susannah Gunning. 15 Apr. 2016.

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