Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

Maria Edgeworth wrote of SW on meeting her: This poor girl sold a novel in four volumes for ten guineas to Lane of the Minerva Press .

Another edition followed from the Minerva Press in 1812, which is the only one listed by OCLC WorldCat.Sarah Green alleged the following year that this was not original, but a translation...

The Minerva Press edition of 1801, not listed in OCLC WorldCat or the British Library catalogue, survives in a few copies (one of which is in the University of Alberta library at Edmonton). An...

Apparently this was her second novel; the title-page of Olivia mentions one entitled Hortensia, which seems not to survive. The Rambles of Mr. Frankly was advertised as soon to appear in July. By July...

This was advertised at the beginning of April, and reviewed in May (later than EH 's other book of this year, Plutarch's Lives Abridged). It was reprinted by A. K. Newman at the Minerva Press

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.

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...

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

MC published an anonymous novel, Ammorvin and Zallida, again with the Minerva Press .

RMR published with Minerva another sentimental gothic novel in four volumes, The Discarded Son; or, Haunt of the Banditti, A Tale.

Anna Maria Johnson (later Mackenzie) gave her name (as Mrs Johnson, Author of Retribution, Gamesters, &c.) on her novel Calista, the first she published with William Lane of the Minerva Press .