Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
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.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1:765
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Mary Julia 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.
Blakey, Dorothy. The Minerva Press 1790-1820. Oxford University Press, p. 337 pp.
153
This seems...
Textual Production Jane West
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.
Prudentia...
Publishing Susanna Watts
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 .
Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook.
Publishing Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
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...
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas published her second novel (her first with the Minerva Press and first under what became her identifying pen-name of Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle): The Three Old Maids of the House of Penruddock.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 240
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas published another Minerva novel as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: The Husband and Wife; or, The Matrimonial Martyr, dated 1808 on its title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 288
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas gave her next Minerva novel (again published as by Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle) an exotic title: Monte Video; or, The Officer's Wife and Her Sister.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 309
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas published another Minerva novel as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: Mortimer Hall; or, The Labourer's Hire.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 355-6
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas published another Minerva novel as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: The Vindictive Spirit.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 373
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas , as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle, published her sixth Minerva Press work: The Prison-House; or, The World We Live In. A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 406
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas published her eighth and last Minerva Press title, again as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: Claudine; or, Pertinacity. A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 453-4
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas published eight novels with the Minerva Press , the last of which appeared just as she was trying out another publisher. She issued all these novels under the name of Bridget Bluemantle (almost...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Taylor
In this highly satirical treatment of the fashionable novel of the day, the woman-writer-protagonist's publisher Mr Newman (clearly a hit at A. K. Newman of the Minerva Press ) repeatedly reads her works aloud and...
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...

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.
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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...

Women writers item

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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