Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

Elizabeth Thomas published another Minerva novel as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: Mortimer Hall; or, The Labourer's Hire.

An advertisement listed the novel as forthcoming on 30 June. The next year saw both a Dublin edition and a Minerva Press one (which bibliographer Deborah McLeod knew only from an advertisement, with the author...

Maria Edgeworth wrote of SW on meeting her: This poor girl sold a novel in four volumes for ten guineas to Lane of the Minerva Press .

JW published with the Minerva Press , under the name of the fictional Prudentia Homespun, The Advantages of Education, or, The History of Maria Williams. A Tale for Misses and their Mammas.

MJY published with the Minerva Press her first novel, Rose-Mount Castle; or, False Report, in three volumes, with her name as M. J. Young.

A three-volume, anonymous Minerva novel, The Family Party, 1791, has also been widely ascribed to MJY since Dorothy Blakey first made the attribution in 1939 from a Minerva catalogue of 1814. This seems...