Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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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 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 Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
The author signed her preface as Eliz. Sarah Villa-Real Gooch. A German translation appeared the following year. The Minerva Press seems to have bought this work from Cawthorn , since an advertisement for it...
Publishing Helen Craik
The novel had been advertised in April as to be published speedily.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 669
It appeared before the end of the year through the Minerva Press in three volumes, with a frontispiece and French...
Publishing Isabella Kelly
Its title-page mentioned its dedication (with permission) to the Duchess of York . This dedication voices IK 's hopes of extricating her husband from distress as well as supporting her children. Its subscription list was...
Reception Mary Charlton
In this year a Minerva Press catalogue mentioned MC as one of its most popular authors.
Reception Elizabeth Meeke
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...
Textual Features Charlotte Riddell
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.
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.
The novel includes...
Textual Features Charlotte Smith
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
Textual Features Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
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...
Textual Features Mrs E. M. Foster
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...
Textual Features Mrs E. M. Foster
Judith, the remaining MEMF novel of 1800, is attributed to the author of Rebecca, Miriam, and Fitzmorris &c. There was German translation in 1802.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 115
The incredibly complex plot follows...
Textual Production Caroline Scott
CS published her first, anonymous novel, A Marriage in High Life, which was billed as edited by the authoress of Flirtation—meaning Scott's cousin the successful novelist Lady Charlotte Bury .
It was a...
Textual Production Anna Maria Mackenzie
AMM published with her name as Mackenzie and mention of earlier works, through the Minerva Press , a historical novel entitled Martin and Mansfeldt, or The Romance of Franconia.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 155
Textual Production Elizabeth Bonhote
EB published her next novel, Ellen Woodley, again with William Lane and in the first year of the Minerva Press . It bore her name and previous titles, but had no preface.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
69 (1790): 592
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
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