Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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...

EM 's books sold in the USA and Canada as well as in Britain. Their readers included Mary Russell Mitford and Thomas Babington Macaulay . He called them absurd and his own taste for them...

In this year a Minerva Press catalogue mentioned MC as one of its most popular authors.

Ducray-Duménil's novel was Jules; ou, Le toit paternel, Paris, 1806, and Cottin's much shorter tale was Elisabeth; ou, Les exilés de Sibérie, published on its own the same year. The Cottin tale (said...

The author signed her preface as Eliz. Sarah Villa-Real Gooch. A German translation appeared the following year. The Minerva Press seems to have bought this work from Cawthorn , since an advertisement for it...

For some reason the publisher, the Minerva Press , confused Eva of Cambria (whose title-page said 1811) with another novel of that year by Emma Parker . The press placed on Eva of Cambria's...

Margarita: A Novel by Mary Martha Butts (later MMS ) and published by the Minerva Press , under the name the Author of The Traditions, was advertised as ready for sale.

Its title-page mentioned its dedication (with permission) to the Duchess of York . This dedication voices IK 's hopes of extricating her husband from distress as well as supporting her children. Its subscription list was...

The second edition was published with Minerva . In her self-depreciating preface to this four-volume novel, IK coyly mentions an unnamed patron. This was in fact Matthew Gregory Lewis , who read her work and...

She may have used two successive publishers. The Critical Review said the publisher was William Lane of the Minerva Press , but the bibliographer Peter Garside and his associates record a copy published by S. Highley

A second edition was advertised (together with its sequel, The Englishman), in Mrs E. M. Foster 's Substance and Shadow, Minerva 1812.

She signed her dedication to Charlotte Princess of WalesIsabella Hedgeland, and dated it 1 September. A second edition was published through Minerva Press in 1819.

HRM issued in her birth name and by (mostly Irish) subscription through the Minerva Press a novel she had been trying to publish for some years: A Peep at our Ancestors. An Historical Romance...

The initials E.M.F. first appeared on a title-page with the earlier of two historical novels attributed to MEMF : The Duke of Clarence: An Historical Novel. It was advertised in October 1794, reviewed by...

This rare first edition is available from Chawton 's Novels On-line, http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. An apparently new edition published in 1811 by A. K. Newman (Minerva ) as Almeria D'Aveiro; or, the Irish Guardian actually consists...