Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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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...
Textual Production Ann Hatton
AH , as Anne of Swansea, published with Minerva her five-volume Chronicles of an Illustrious House; or, The Peer, the Lawyer, and the Hunchback. A Novel: a satirical, à clef attack on many...
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
Coelebs had appeared in December 1808, though its title-page said 1809. This answer was published by the Minerva Press , now under the name of A. K. Newman . It was in two volumes only...
Textual Production Mrs Ross
Mrs Ross , a novelist about whom nothing is known except her works, published anonymously with the Minerva Press her apparently earliest book, The Cousins; or, A Woman's Promise and a Lover's Vow.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 354
Textual Production Emily Frederick Clark
EFC published with the Minerva Press her latest identified novel, The Esquimaux; or, Fidelity: A Tale, in three volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 477
Textual Production Mary Ann Radcliffe
William Lane (who this year renamed his publishing firm the Minerva Press ) issued an anonymous novel, Radzivil, A Romance, which was unconvincingly assigned to MAR in a Minerva catalogue of 1802.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
69 (1790): 118
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
205
Textual Production Sophia King
The Minerva Press published SK 's (anonymous) second novel, Cordelia; or, A Romance of Real Life.
Her subtitle had been used as title by Charlotte Smith for a translation from French published twelve years before.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Textual Production Mrs E. M. Foster
Four novels attributed to MEMF were published by Minerva Press in this year, though it's not clear in what order they appeared: Emily of Lucerne, Frederic and Caroline, or the Fitzmorris Family, Miriam...
Textual Production Sarah Green
SG 's The Festival of St Jago. A Spanish Romance, in two volumes with the Minerva Press , was one of perhaps four titles in a phenomenally productive year.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 19 (1810): 223
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 322-3
Textual Production Anne Marsh
In fact The Professional Visits of the Black Doctor is translated from Alfred de Vigny 's Les consultations du Docteur-Noir, a series of the 1840s, and Family Pictures; or, The Life of a Poor...
Textual Production Ann Hatton
AH issued through Minerva , anonymously except for reference to her previous works, her four-volume Gonzalo de Baldivia; or, A Widow's Vow. A Romantic Legend, published with 1817 on its title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 447
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young
Textual Production Mrs Ross
MR published one of her two Minerva books of this year, The Strangers of Lindenfeldt; or, Who is my Father? A Novel, with her name and mention of her previous novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 388
Textual Production Margaret Holford
The elder Margaret Holford published with her name, through the Minerva Press , First Impressions; or, The Portrait. A Novel, in four volumes, dedicated to Anna Seward .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 135-6
Textual Production Mary Ann Radcliffe
William Lane issued another anonymous novel, The Fate of Velina de Guidova, which a much later Minerva Press catalogue (1814) ascribed to MAR —just as unconvincingly as the previous Minerva ascription.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
70 (1790): 96
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
207

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