Introduction: the Minerva Press era; 1. Minerva's writers and reviewers; 2. Godwin, Bage, Parsons, and novels as they are; 3. Imitating Ann Radcliffe 4. Hannah More's Cœlebs and the novel of the moment; 5. Fiction as fashion from Belinda to Miss Byron; 6. Walter Scott's industrial antiques; Epilogue: remainders.