Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Author summary | Selina Davenport | Although or because she was harrassed by poverty, SD
published, between 1813 and 1834, eleven novels (mostly with the Minerva Press
) which the Feminist Companion calls effective if stereotyped, |
| Author summary | Mary Charlton | Active at the end of the eighteenth century and the first several decades of the nineteenth, MC
published a dozen historical or exotic romances and socially critical novels. The former made her one of the... |
| 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 | 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... |
| Author summary | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | HRM
published about ten novels and a volume of short fiction with the Minerva Press
and its successor during the early nineteenth century; writing at first for pleasure, then out of increasingly desperate financial need... |
| Author summary | Ann Hatton | Besides her poems and opera librettos dating from the late eighteenth century, AH
published with the Minerva Press
fourteen novels or romances as Ann (or Anne) of Swansea, beginning in 1810. A highly intelligent though... |
| Publishing | Isabella Kelly | IK
's third novel, The Ruins of Avondale Priory, was advertised as newly published with the Minerva Press
in three volumes. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. |
| Publishing | Catherine Cuthbertson | It came out in four volumes from Robinson
, but many copies were burned in a warehouse fire. After this The Lady's Magazine reprinted it as a serial beginning in February 1804. Mayo, Robert. The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815. Northwestern University Press, 1962. 232 |
| Publishing | Amelia Beauclerc | |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | It was published in two volumes. A Minerva
edition is undated; a New York edition came out in 1808. |
| Publishing | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Anna Maria Johnson
had a novel entitled Monmouth
: A Tale, Founded on Historical Facts advertised under this name as soon to be published by William Lane
of the Minerva Press
—even though she had... |
| Publishing | Barbara Hofland | The Minerva Press
published, with an engraved frontispiece and a title-page saying 1812, BH
's one-volume novel The History of a Clergyman's Widow and her Young Family. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992. 59 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Meeke | 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... |
| Publishing | Mary Martha Sherwood | 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. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 801 |
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