| | Cardiff Corvey Articles, I.1: P. GARSIDE & A. MANDAL, Producing Fiction in Britain, 1800—1829 |
 | | In the 1820s, accessions reached a new level, with the library in two single years (1822 and 1829) actually taking all but one of the novels in my index file. |
 | | Furthermore, female-penned works outnumber male-penned works by 23% (approximately 121 novels), although the average output of womens novels had dropped from 64% in the latter half of the 1810s to around 51% during 18259. |
 | | Perhaps this emphasis on the female market explains the demise of Minerva in the 1820s, with their rather unfashionable touting of female-penned works at a time which anticipated the dominance of the Victorian male author in the light of Scotts phenomenal achievement. |
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