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List Of Minerva Press Authors
This is an alphabetical list of authors who published at Minerva Press, or with William Lane before he coined the name, between the founding of the press in 1790 and 1820 or so when Lane's successor, A. K. Newman, dropped "Minerva" from the company title. Minerva Press was a publishing house notable for creating a lucrative market in sentimental and Gothic fiction in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was established in or about 1790 when William Lane (–1814) moved his circulating library to No 33 Leadenhall Street, London. Minerva Press has been, and continues to be, a subject of considerable interest for scholars of print and popular cultures, women's writing, and the Romantic period. There is also a market for modern reissues of novels from Minerva and other Gothic authors: Valancourt Books has reissued a number of Minerva titles and Broadview Press has produced several scholarly editions of early Gothic novels. Many of Minerva's authors remain obscure, howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minerva Press
Minerva Press was a publishing house, noted for creating a lucrative market in sentimental and Gothic fiction in the late 18th century and early 19th century. It was established by William Lane (c. 1745–1814) at No 33 Leadenhall Street, London, when he moved his circulating library there in about 1790. Publications The Minerva Press was hugely successful in its heyday, though it had a reputation for sensationalism among readers and critics, and for sharp business practices among some of its competitors. Many of Lane's regular writers were women, including Regina Maria Roche (''The Maid of Hamlet'', 1793; '' Clermont'', 1798); Eliza Parsons ('' The Castle of Wolfenbach'', 1793; '' The Mysterious Warning'', 1796); E. M. Foster; and Eleanor Sleath ('' The Orphan of the Rhine'', 1798) whose Gothic fiction is included in the list of seven " horrid novels" recommended by the character Isabella Thorpe in Jane Austen's '' Northanger Abbey''. Six of the ''Northanger'' Seven were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Beauclerc
Amelia Beauclerc (1 January 1790 – 1 March 1820) was a British Gothic novelist. Life Beauclerc's life has been described as "invisible." Writing It has taken time to establish a complete bibliography for Beauclerk. Her first two novels, ''Eva of Cambria, or, The Fugitive Daughter'' (1810) and Ora and ''Juliet, or, Influence of First Principles'' (1811), were published by mistake under the name "Emma de Lisle," the nom de plume of another novelist, Emma Parker. Beauclerc's next four novels were published "by the author of," but her final two novels were clearly published under her own name. Six of Beauclerc's eight novels were published with the Minerva Press, famous for their sentimental and Gothic titles. Her interest was more the former; one commentator called her novels "sham Gothic" because they focused more on sentiment than on more thrilling genre elements. In this regard, Beauclerc followed the example of Ann Radcliffe and the tradition of the " female Gothic." Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Charlton (writer)
Mary Charlton (fl. 1794–1824), Gothic novelist and translator, was a "leading light" at the Minerva Press."Mary Charlton." Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Accessed 2022-07-20.Orlando Work Mary Charlton was a prolific novelist and translator for the popular Minerva Press, to the extent that publisher William Lane (bookseller), William Lane named her in sixth place on his list of "particular and favourite Authors" in his prospectus.Grenby, M. O. "Charlton, Mary (fl. 1794–1824), writer and translator." ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. 03. Oxford University Press. Date of access 21 Jul. 2022. Although the Press was frequently seen as low-brow and even disreputable, Charlton herself seems to have often received solid reviews: the ''Critical Review'' described ''Andronica'' as "interesting and amusing" and the ''Anti-Jacobin'' refers to the "elegant satire and delicate irony" of ''Rosella''.Rev. of ''Rosella'' by Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Horrors Of Oakendale Abbey
''The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey'' is a gothic novel first published in 1797 in one octavo volume by the sensationalist Minerva Press of London. It proved particularly popular with the new circulating libraries of the day. A gothic tale of horror, rather than suspense, it centres on the physical and grotesque, rather than on metaphysical terror. Synopsis The novel tells the story of Laura, a foundling refugee from revolutionary France, her attempted seduction at the hands of Lord Oakendale and her explorations of the haunted Cumberland abbey of the title which lead her to stumble upon a den of resurrection men and body snatchers. It is unusually graphic in its depiction of death and decay, even by the standards of the day, in terms of its descriptions of the gruesome. The book is similar in some respects to Eliza Parsons' ''The Castle of Wolfenbach'' although it does not have the same emotional subtlety of that work. Authorship The title page of the novel simply says it is " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electrolysis
In chemistry and manufacturing, electrolysis is a technique that uses direct electric current (DC) to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction. Electrolysis is commercially important as a stage in the separation of elements from naturally occurring sources such as ores using an electrolytic cell. The voltage that is needed for electrolysis to occur is called the decomposition potential. The word "lysis" means to separate or break, so in terms, electrolysis would mean "breakdown via electricity". Etymology The word "electrolysis" was introduced by Michael Faraday in 1834, using the Greek words "amber", which since the 17th century was associated with electrical phenomena, and ' meaning "dissolution". Nevertheless, electrolysis, as a tool to study chemical reactions and obtain pure elements, precedes the coinage of the term and formal description by Faraday. History In the early nineteenth century, William Nicholson and Anthony Carlisle sought to further ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Carlisle
Sir Anthony Carlisle FRCS, FRS (15 February 1768 in Stillington, County Durham, England – 2 November 1840 in London) was an English surgeon. Life He was born in Stillington, County Durham, the third son of Thomas Carlisle and his first wife, and the half-brother of Nicholas Carlisle. He was apprenticed to medical practitioners in York and Durham, including his uncle Anthony Hubback and William Green. He later studied in London under John Hunter. In 1793 he was appointed Surgeon at Westminster Hospital in 1793, remaining there for 47 years. He also studied art at the Royal Academy. In 1800, he and William Nicholson discovered electrolysis by passing a voltaic current through water, decomposing it into its constituent elements of hydrogen and oxygen. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1804. He was Professor of Anatomy of the Society from 1808 to 1824. In 1815 he became a member of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons, and served as president of the Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Primrose Campbell
Dorothea Primrose Campbell (4 May 1793 – 6 January 1863) was a poet, novelist and teacher from the Shetland islands of Scotland. She wrote a novel, ''Harley Radington: A Tale'' (1821), and had poems and short fiction printed in London periodicals. Campbell continued to write in the face of family trauma, poverty, and ethnic and gender discrimination. Her melodic, whimsical poetry and her works of fiction are seen as revealing works that cover historical and societal barriers which Campbell herself was facing. Life Early family difficulties Dorothea Primrose Campbell was born in Lerwick on 4 May 1793 and was baptised on 11 May in her birthplace. Her father, Duncan Campbell, was a surgeon who had married Elizabeth (Eliza), one of the Scotts of Scottshall in Scalloway. Dorothea was the eldest of the family, with a younger sister and two brothers. The many difficulties included long family struggles with debts from her grandfather, her mother's struggle against opium addiction, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Burke (writer)
Anne Burke (fl. 1780-1805) was an Irish novelist in the Gothic genre. She was one of the earliest women writers of Gothic fiction. Life and work Anne Burke had been a governess and was widowed with a son. She took up writing to support herself and her family. Becoming a writer did not provide the wealth she had hoped for. She applied for relief several times to the Royal Literary Fund from whom she received a total of 13 guineas. As a governess she hoped to set up a school despite having had to nurse her son through smallpox. She wrote multiple successful novels in the Gothic style, though she was known too for her melodramatic style. Her novel ''Adela Northington'' was just one of the huge rise in numbers of new publications in 1796. It was a huge jump from the previous year. ''Ela: or The Delusions of the Heart'' was one of the books translated into multiple other languages. It was reprinted several times. This book may have been an influence on Ann Radcliffe’s '' The Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Elizabeth Budden
Maria Elizabeth Budden, (née Halsey, c. 1780 – 26 April 1832) was a novelist, translator and writer of didactic children's books, who frequently signed her work "M. E. B." or "A Mother". Her ''True Stories...'' series of history books for young people remained popular for many years. Little has come to light about Budden's life. Publications Budden's most popular work throughout the first half of the 19th century was her anonymously published ''Always Happy!!: Or, Anecdotes of Felix and his Sister Serena. A Tale'' (1814). Also perennially popular were her ''True Stories...'' series of history books for young people (1819 onwards), and her novel ''Claudine: or Humility the Basis of All of the Virtues. A Swiss Tale'' (1822). Her novel ''Right and Wrong Exhibited in the History of Rosa and Agnes'' (1818) takes the story of twins who grow up to be very different as a way of inculcating "life lessons for the young". These and other works of hers are available in print on demand edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montague Summers
Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an English author, clergyman, and teacher. He initially prepared for a career in the Church of England at Oxford and Lichfield, and was ordained as an Anglican deacon in 1908. He then converted to Roman Catholicism and began styling himself as a Catholic priest. He was, however, never affiliated with any Catholic diocese or religious order, and it is doubtful that he was ever actually ordained to the priesthood. He was employed as a teacher of English and Latin while independently pursuing scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century. The latter earned him election to the Royal Society of Literature in 1916. Noted for his eccentric personality and interests, Summers became a well known figure in London society as a result of the publication of his ''History of Witchcraft and Demonology'' in 1926. That work was followed by other studies on witchcraft, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Brockden Brown
Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period. He is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. He is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the U.S. novel between 1789 and roughly 1820. Although Brown was not the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres (novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings, poetry, historiography, and reviews) makes him a crucial figure in U.S. literature and culture of the 1790s, and the first decade of the 19th century. He has been referred to as the "Father of the American Novel." Brown was also a significant public intellectual in the wider Atlantic print culture and public sphere during the era of the French Revolution. Biography Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
