Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Amelia Beauclerc
Perhaps because of the mixup caused by Minerva , AB chose Crosby to publish her next novel, The Castle of Tariffa; or, The Self-Banished Man—they published as well her next, Alinda; or, The Child...
Textual Production Amelia Beauclerc
AB published anonymously (without mention of any earlier novels) through the Minerva Press , Montreithe; or, The Peer of Scotland. A Novel, in four volumes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 423
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 394
Textual Production Amelia Beauclerc
AB published with the Minerva Press , as the author of Montreithe, Husband Hunters!!! A Novel
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 427
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
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 Amelia Beauclerc
AB published her last known work, Disorder and Order. A Novel, in three volumes with Minerva , with her name and list of four previous titles.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 493
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
Publishing Amelia Beauclerc
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...
Textual Production Anna Maria Bennett
AMB dated the Apology to her novel Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel, published with the Minerva Press , which appeared within a couple of months.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
233
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 608
Textual Production Anna Maria Bennett
On this date, advertisements said, AMB published her most popular novel, The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors, with the Minerva Press .
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
260
Textual Production Anna Maria Bennett
AMB published, with the Minerva Press , what seems to be her last novel, the six-volume Vicissitudes Abroad; or, The Ghost of My Father.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 228
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
337
Publishing Anna Maria Bennett
It is dedicated to a Colonel Hunter, who is said both to have wept over Anna and to have been helpful to AMB 's daughter. The Minerva Press printed a second edition in 1797, and...
Textual Production Anna Maria Bennett
Several novels were attributed to AMB which are probably not hers. Titles that have been ascribed to her include Henry Bennett et Julie Johnson, 1794 (a French translation, bearing her name, of John Raithby
Textual Production Elizabeth Bonhote
EB published her next novel, Ellen Woodley, again with William Lane and in the first year of the Minerva Press . It bore her name and previous titles, but had no preface.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
69 (1790): 592
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
4
Textual Production Elizabeth Bonhote
EB published with Minerva her last novel, Bungay Castle, in two volumes; it had been delayed in the printing, and the title-page says 1796.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 707-8
Publishing Elizabeth Bonhote
Apparently this was her second novel; the title-page of Olivia mentions one entitled Hortensia, which seems not to survive. The Rambles of Mr. Frankly was advertised as soon to appear in July. By July...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bonhote
She published the work in two volumes, with William Lane of the future Minerva Press ,
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
4
and for the first time put her name (Mrs. Bonhote of Bungay, Suffolk) on the title-page...

Timeline

By 1784: William Lane, who had been active in the...

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By 1784

William Lane , who had been active in the London book trade since 1763, was soliciting novels to publish.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
3

1790: William Lane's publishing firm first took...

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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.

By June 1797: The unidentified Mrs Carver published one...

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By June 1797

The unidentified Mrs Carver published one of her two novels this year with the Minerva Press : Elizabeth. The other is the distinctly gruesome The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey.

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