Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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Textual Production Eliza Fenwick
As Lissa Paul has pointed out, she wrote not long after the appearance in earlier 1794 of the Second Report from the Committee of Secrecy, a progress report on government snooping into private affairs...
Textual Production Alethea Lewis
AL published, as Eugenia de Acton and with the Minerva Press , a four-volume novel entitled The Discarded Daughter. This was her last known work.
Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
63 (1810): 209-10
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
355
Textual Production Amelia Beauclerc
AB published The Deserter. A Novel, again in four volumes from Minerva , this time giving her name as well as mentioning her two previous books.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
17 (1817): 565
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 441
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
Textual Production Sarah Green
It came out in three volumes from A. K. Newman of the former Minerva Press . This time SG keeps her author's message of apology and defence for the end of the book.
Textual Production Mrs Martin
MM published with Minerva what is apparently her final book, The Enchantress; or, Where Shall I Find Her? A Tale, as by the author of . . . , mentioning all her novels except...
Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
Eighteen-year-old Mary Martha Butt (later MMS ) published with the Minerva Press her first novel, ycleptThe Traditions: A Legendary Tale, intended to help fund Monsieur St Quintin 's new Hans Place School ...
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
Miss Byron, later called MGB , published her longest work yet: The Englishman, A Novel, from Minerva in six volumes, bearing the date of 1812.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 24 (1811): 224
Textual Production Rachel Hunter
It was printed by the Minerva Press , with 1811 on the title-page. It was advertised in Minerva books of 1813, 1816 and 1817.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
363
Feminist Companion Archive.
The title is sometimes given as The School instead of...
Textual Production Regina Maria Roche
RMR published through the Minerva Press a historical romance, The Houses of Osma and Almeria; or, Convent of St. Ildefonso, A Tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 330
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
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...
Reception Mary Charlton
In this year a Minerva Press catalogue mentioned MC as one of its most popular authors.

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