Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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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...
Author summary Isabella Kelly
IK , who published during the very late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century, was a poet and a leading Minerva Press novelist in gothic and other modes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
She also wrote a couple of pedagogic...
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,
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.
as well as mostly unidentified...
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...
Publishing Isabella Kelly
She signed her dedication to Charlotte Princess of WalesIsabella Hedgeland, and dated it 1 September.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
A second edition was published through Minerva Press in 1819.
Publishing Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
HRM issued in her birth name and by (mostly Irish) subscription through the Minerva Press a novel she had been trying to publish for some years: A Peep at our Ancestors. An Historical Romance...
Publishing Mrs E. M. Foster
The initials E.M.F. first appeared on a title-page with the earlier of two historical novels attributed to MEMF : The Duke of Clarence: An Historical Novel. It was advertised in October 1794, reviewed by...
Publishing Anna Maria Mackenzie
This rare first edition is available from Chawton 's Novels On-line, http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. An apparently new edition published in 1811 by A. K. Newman (Minerva ) as Almeria D'Aveiro; or, the Irish Guardian actually consists...
Publishing Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
The Minerva Press advertised HRM 's new novel, Arrivals from India, or Time's a Great Master, with her married name and mention of previous works, and with highly selective quotes from the Critical Review...
Publishing Susanna Haswell Rowson
Within a few months of her great success, SHR published by subscription with the Minerva PressMentoria; or, The Young Lady's Friend, a collection of didactic letters and tales aimed at female non-novel-readers.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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Publishing Barbara Hofland
It seems to have been published before The Son of a Genius, which mentions this novel on its title-page. Among several later editions, one from Minerva in 1829 is entitled The Daughter-in-Law, her Father...
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...
Publishing Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
HRM called herself Mrs Mosse late Henrietta Rouviere (and mentioned all of her five previous books) on the title-page of her novel A Bride and No Wife, advertised this day in four volumes with...

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