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This chapter describes the book and its chapters. The second section shows how recent research in history of the book and history of reading discredits Romantic critics who pretended that Minerva Press fiction was third rate, empty of ideas and read only by ignorant females, and supports the public and private praise contemporaries gave many of them during the 1780s and 1790s. The third section uses the biographical work of three generations of modern feminist scholars to check Marotti-style big-data analyses and develop a profile of Lane’s many signing female regulars, most of whom wrote for him for ten years or more, and in practice formulated and developed Minerva genres
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