Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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...

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...

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...

Butts remarks the complex publishing history of this novel, which was at first printed at Ipswich and sold by Longman in London, then reprinted the same year by Minerva , which did not mention...

She dedicated this book, which bore her name (with mention of her grandfather and her previous novel), to the Countess of Shaftesbury (wife of the sixth earl, who was soon to become the mother of...

EM 's books sold in the USA and Canada as well as in Britain. Their readers included Mary Russell Mitford and Thomas Babington Macaulay . He called them absurd and his own taste for them...

In this year a Minerva Press catalogue mentioned MC as one of its most popular authors.

This book differs from Foster's first two novels, in that it is shorter (two volumes instead of three or four), not historical but rather a sentimental novel about courtship, and originally published by Minerva as...

Judith, the remaining MEMF novel of 1800, is attributed to the author of Rebecca, Miriam, and Fitzmorris &c. There was German translation in 1802. The incredibly complex plot follows...

The heroine is a mysterious young widow embittered by her experience of a corrupt guardian and a dissipated husband who betrayed and deserted her. The play mocks literary generic conventions, including those that were CS

There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More 's Coelebs...

The protagonist has an invalid mother. She takes disappointments and setbacks bravely, tramping round one publisher's office after another. Her eventual success brings her the happiness of her own (unshared) country cottage. The novel includes...

It appeared in one volume from the Minerva Press . A new edition was issued by December that year, and another in 1796. The niece, Charlotte, not yet sixteen, was the daughter of...

MM 's second book appeared from the Minerva Press : Melbourne, A Novel, as by the author of Deloraine.

The same year, presumably not by coincidence, the Minerva Press published a translation by Elizabeth Meeke : The Unpublished Correspondence of Madame du Deffand.