Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821
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Dedications | Eliza Parsons | EP
issued another work through the Minerva Press
: The Girl of the Mountains. A Novel, dedicated to Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester
, a niece of the king and the daughter of a... |
Dedications | Isabella Kelly | IK
's Minerva Press
novel Eva was advertised as just published. It was dedicated to the Duchess of Gloucester
(wife of George III
's next-but-one brother, William Henry
, unacknowledged by the royal family because... |
Dedications | Isabella Kelly | IK
, as Catherine Harris, published with Minerva Press
an epistolary novel, Edwardina, dedicated to |
Dedications | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
's Minerva
novel Mysteries Elucidated, dedicated to the newly married |
Dedications | Barbara Hofland | BH
published, with the Minerva Press
, dedicated by permission to the queen
, A Visit to London; or, Emily and her Friends. A Novel. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 4th ser. 6 (1814): 104 Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 4 |
Dedications | Ann Hatton | AH
, as Ann of Swansea, published with the Minerva PressConviction; or, She Is Innocent! A Novel, respectfully dedicated to an unnamed Friend (male). Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 398 |
Dedications | Ann Hatton | AH
published with Minerva
, as Anne of Swansea, Secret Avengers; or, The Rock of Glotzden. A Romance, in four volumes, dedicated to the actress and author Catherine Smith
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 415 |
Dedications | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
made her only use of a pseudonym, Ellen of Exeter, to publish another gothic Minerva Press
novel, The Neapolitan, or The Test of Integrity, dedicated to the dramatist Richard Cumberland
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 684 |
Dedications | Regina Maria Roche | RMR
dated a dedication to the second edition of The Vicar of Lansdowne, published by the Minerva Press
. McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta. 296 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Hervey | The Critical Reviewread this pleasing and interesting story as an imitation of Burney
's Cecilia.If there is a fault, it suggested, it was the structural fault of raising and solving one difficulty... |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Times did indeed review it, and using the extended metaphor of a hunt, pronounced it a good galloping novel . . . to be enjoyed rather than criticised, Times. Times Publishing Company. (18 November 1862): 4 |
Author summary | Regina Maria Roche | RMR
had great success as a popular Irish novelist and leading Minerva Press
author, using her own name and often listing her previous titles. She also published a couple of novellas, though most of the... |
Author summary | Eleanor Sleath | ES
was a popular novelist who published six titles, mostly with the Minerva Press
, in little more than a decade, having begun just before the close of the eighteenth century. She sometimes intersperses poetry... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Meeke | EM
, who was not correctly identified until 2013, was unusually prolific among novelists (twenty-six titles), children's writers, and translators of the Romantic period. (She also compiled an anthology for children.) She issued through the... |
Timeline
By 1784: William Lane, who had been active in the...
Writing climate item
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...
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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