Search Results for Minerva Press

... with the infamous Minerva Press, which issued staggering levels of new fiction written primarily by women. Meeke’s title-pages employed a complex system of authorship: some works carried her name (“Mrs. Meeke”); others were anonymous; a third strain employed the pseudonym “Gabrielli.” As an author of numerous...

...Yael Shapira In 1795, novelist Isabella Kelly (ca. 1759–1857) sent a plea for financial help to Warren Hastings (1732–1818), the first British governor-general of India, who had known her late father-in-law. Six years later, her Minerva Press novel Ruthinglenne, or, the Critical Moment (1801...

... carried her name (“Mrs. Meeke others were anonymous; a third strain employed the pseudonym “Gabrielli.” As an author of numerous žctions forced to adopt a multi - faceted persona for the marketplace, Meeke, according to Mandal, repre- sents and was shaped by the culture William Lane’s Minerva Press...

... to Hester Thrale, October LSJ, : ) Johnson could do nothing for the disgraced Elizabeth Meeke, who would later become a proli‹c Minerva Press novelist and whose literary output is assessed by Anthony Mandal in another contribution to this collection. 22 He did, however, make strenuous e...

... an account of attribution as a slow and repetitive process rather than a singular moment or act. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 R Attribution and Repetition: The Case of  Defoe and the Circulating Library Mark...

... at the Minerva-Press, for A. K. Newman, 1813). Also, on a tale of “a deserted orphan” published in the Lady’s Magazine in November 1802 as an important source of Emma’s fantasy of Harriet as a gentleman’s daughter, see Edward Copeland, “Money,” in The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, ed. Edward...

...David H. Richter R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 43, Number 3, September 2019 doi 10.1215/00982601-7725793 Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 1 2 7 The Rise of the Novel, or Tis Sixty Years Since David H. Richter Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center Leah Orr. Novel...

...Christina Smylitopoulos Duke University Press 2008 R Rewritten and Reused: Imaging the Nabob through “Upstart Iconography” Christina Smylitopoulos McGill University...

...” Stuart: The Rediscovery of Antiquity (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2006). Pp 672. 500 color ills. 100 b/w ills. $100. ISBN 0-300-11713-2 Duke University Press 2009 Review Essay James “Athenian” Stuart and the Greek Revival...

...Michael R. Lynn Duke University Press 2006 Sparks for Sale: The Culture and Commerce of Fireworks in Early Modern France Michael R. Lynn Agnes Scott College...

... literature is her use of both modes to represent religious training. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 R Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra: Adelaide O’Keeffe, the Jewish Conversion Novel, and the Limits of Rational Education...

... shares Hume’s annoyance with this particular vein of skepticism I have described as dispositional— a cynical moral skepticism on the attack. As one mark of the “general depravity” of his age, Richardson cites that religious and moral skepticism is “openly avowed” and “propagated from the press” (4...

... for India), the writer William Hickey, on a voyage to India, noted that the third officer kept a small library of books available to the ship's company. 36 Alongside the Muse, there is an invocation of Minerva as goddess of wisdom and the arts, reflecting Frederic's interest in art and science...

... it is possible to pose about Wolcot as a writer beyond those to do with his attitude to ministerial policy during the revolutionary period. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 John Wolcot Peter Pindar Samuel Johnson James Boswell satire anecdote...

...Eve Tavor Bannet Duke University Press 2006 The Bluestocking Sisters: Women’s Patronage, Millenium Hall, and “The Visible Providence of a Country” Eve Tavor Bannet University...