Minerva-press

Minerva-press, the name of a printing-office in Leadenhall Street, London, from which issued in the later part of the 18th and the earlier part of the 19th century a long series of highly sentimental novels, with remarkably intricate plots and an ample measure of tribulation and tears before the happy denouement was reached. These were gradually laughed out of existence as a taste for more humane and healthy fiction spread over England.