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.
Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821
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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 | 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, |
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 | 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 | 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... |
Author summary | Regina Maria Roche | RMR
had great success as a popular Irish novelist and leading Minerva Press
author, using her own name and often listing her previous titles. She also published a couple of novellas, though most of the... |
Author summary | Eleanor Sleath | ES
was a popular novelist who published six titles, mostly with the Minerva Press
, in little more than a decade, having begun just before the close of the eighteenth century. She sometimes intersperses poetry... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Meeke | EM
, who was not correctly identified until 2013, was unusually prolific among novelists (twenty-six titles), children's writers, and translators of the Romantic period. (She also compiled an anthology for children.) She issued through the... |
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. |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Times did indeed review it, and using the extended metaphor of a hunt, pronounced it a good galloping novel . . . to be enjoyed rather than criticised, Times. Times Publishing Company. (18 November 1862): 4 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Hervey | The Critical Reviewread this pleasing and interesting story as an imitation of Burney
's Cecilia.If there is a fault, it suggested, it was the structural fault of raising and solving one difficulty... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | |
Dedications | Eliza Parsons | EP
issued another work through the Minerva Press
: The Girl of the Mountains. A Novel, dedicated to Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester
, a niece of the king and the daughter of a... |
Dedications | Isabella Kelly | IK
's Minerva Press
novel Eva was advertised as just published. It was dedicated to the Duchess of Gloucester
(wife of George III
's next-but-one brother, William Henry
, unacknowledged by the royal family because... |
Dedications | Isabella Kelly | IK
, as Catherine Harris, published with Minerva Press
an epistolary novel, Edwardina, dedicated to IK
told the Royal Literary Fund
she was the author of this novel. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
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