{"id":6265,"date":"2026-01-10T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:15:06","slug":"bars-digital-event-announcement-re-reading-the-minerva-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6265","title":{"rendered":"BARS Digital Event Announcement: Re-reading the Minerva Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>22 January 2026, 6pm UK Time, via Zoom<br>Register: <a href=\"https:\/\/uofglasgow.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_EzMc8b_SRAyyDFqMfHzqGg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/uofglasgow.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_EzMc8b_SRAyyDFqMfHzqGg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>London\u2019s Minerva Press published many of the most popular novels<br>in Britain and Ireland between 1790 and 1830. Though remarkably<br>widely read, works by writers such as Isabella Kelly, Mary Charlton,<br>Elizabeth Meeke, and Anna Maria Mackenzie, among many others,<br>suffered critical condemnation at least in part because of their<br>association with the Minerva Press. As a result, titles like The Abbey<br>of St. Asaph (1795), Rosella (1799), The Abbey of Clugny (1795), and<br>Mysteries Elucidated (1795) have been marginalised in the literary<br>historiography of the Romantic period. However, as research is<br>increasingly showing, recovery of and close attention to these works<br>promises to flesh out our understanding of Romantic-era reading<br>habits as well as the critical perspectives that shaped the<br>contemporary literary marketplace and the received canon of<br>Romantic fiction. This roundtable seeks to contribute to this work<br>by highlighting individual Minerva novels, exploring the reasons for<br>their current neglect, and offering recommendations as to why they<br>should be more widely read.<br><br>Speakers: Beth Brigham, Bridget Donnelly, Hannah Hudson, Christina<br>Morin, Elizabeth Neiman, Sean O\u2019Rourke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 January 2026, 6pm UK Time, via ZoomRegister: https:\/\/uofglasgow.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_EzMc8b_SRAyyDFqMfHzqGg London\u2019s Minerva Press published many of the most popular novelsin Britain and Ireland between 1790 and 1830. Though remarkablywidely read, works&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6265\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6297,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}