Anna Maria Porter

21 September 1780 - 21 September 1832

Standard Name: Porter, Anna Maria

Birth Name: Anna Maria Porter

Pseudonym: A. P—r

Though she also wrote poetry and other genres, AMP 's name rests on her almost thirty historical romances (totalling 54 volumes). Many had US editions and French translations. She tends to focus on male rather than female relationships. Her settings range across European history and geography; she is interested in independence struggles, and supports an idealised version of rational, constitutional, British middle-class polity against tyranny on the one hand and barbarianism on the other. Her plots emphasize sentiment and morality and (like Sophia Lee 's The Recess) make national events a backdrop to private crises and intrigues. Though her earlier work was regularly judged inferior to that of her sister Jane , she became very successful.

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
death	Jane Porter	JP died in Bristol, having outlived her younger sister, Anna Maria , by nearly twenty years, and having been some time in bad health. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 269 Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1899. 88
death	Mary Robinson	An autopsy revealed six large gall-stones. Highfill, Philip H., Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993. 13: 37 Though not much past forty, she had outlived all of her immediate family except her daughter and one brother. Jane Porter wrote an obituary intended for periodical...
Family and Intimate relationships	Jane Porter	JP lived for most of her life with her younger sister, Anna Maria , who also became a writer. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 264-5 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger	Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley , who had already...
Friends, Associates	Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny	MLCC mentions her warm friendships with leading officers of the Royal Navy , whom she knew through her husband's position. A number of writers too, including Mariana Starke , became her personal friends. Crawford, Elizabeth. “Posts tagged Mariana Starke”. Woman and her Sphere. 2 November 2012
Friends, Associates	Selina Davenport	Her tempestuous but close friendship with Jane and Anna Maria Porter began by the mid 1790s. Looser, Devoney. Email to Isobel Grundy about Selina Davenport. Her marriage caused a hiatus in this friendship, but it later resumed, and in any case with Jane it...
Friends, Associates	Mary Robinson	After MR became known as the prince's mistress, the double standard in public morality made it virtually impossible for respectable women to treat her as a friend. Her admiration for Sarah Siddons was not reciprocated...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Isabella Spence	EIS says that her early friendship with Jane and Anna Maria Porter was inherited, developing from the friendship between their parents, Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. 325-6 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Anna Maria Porter which had been formed, no doubt, in Durham. In...
Friends, Associates	Agnes Strickland	They began to build a network of literary friends and potential supporters: Thomas Campbell , Robert Southey , Charles Lamb , editor William Jerdan , and even more helpfully women like Barbara Hofland , Jane
Friends, Associates	Mary Lamb	One of those prepared to welcome her was Elizabeth Benger , who invited the brother and sister to tea, and was keen to get them back again to meet Jane and Anna Maria Porter ...
Friends, Associates	Harriet Lee	HL , like her sister, was personally friendly with many other writers of her day: Jane and Anna Maria Porter , Ann Radcliffe (even though the latter probably did not, as often reported, attend the...
Friends, Associates	Sophia Lee	Their school, together with their literary careers, brought SL and her sisters a wide circle of friends and contacts, including Jane and Anna Maria Porter . The novelist Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins describes Sophia as surrounded...
Leisure and Society	Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny	Her patronage of authors shows up in subscriptions and dedications. She subscribed to works by Mary Deverell , Isabella Kelly , Eliza Parsons , Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson , and no doubt many more. Many of...
Literary responses	Jane Porter	The notice in the Critical Review began by using this novel as a peg for a defence of good novels in general, especially, apparently, those dealing with national histories. The existence of many incompetent novelists...
Literary responses	Jane Porter	JP was, with her sister , one of those praised by John O'Keeffe in his poem Female Authors, Being an Answer to a Lady, who asserted, that by transmigration the soul of Shakespeare lived in...

Timeline

2 July 1798

The conservative Lady's Monthly Museum: or polite repository of amusement and instruction published its first number. Sometimes called The Ladies' Monthly Museum . . . it ran until the 1830s.

Texts

Porter, Anna Maria. A Sailor’s Friendship, and a Soldier’s Love. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805.

Porter, Anna Maria, and Sir Robert Ker Porter. Artless Tales. Printed and sold for the author by L. Wayland, 1793.

Porter, Anna Maria. Artless Tales. Printed and sold for the author by Hookham and Carpenter, 1795.

Porter, Anna Maria, and Shannon Goetze. Artless Tales. Editors Robertson, Leslie, Lesley Peterson, Juliet McMaster, Tom Penner, and Kirsten Uszkalo, Juvenilia Press, 2003.

Porter, Anna Maria. Ballad Romances. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811.

Porter, Anna Maria. Coming Out. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828.

Porter, Anna Maria, and Jane Porter. Coming Out; and, The Field of the Forty Footsteps. Longman, 1828.

Porter, Anna Maria. Don Sebastian. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.

Porter, Anna Maria. Honor O’Hara. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826.

Goetze, Shannon, Anna Maria Porter, and Shannon Goetze. “Introduction”. Artless Tales, edited by Leslie Robertson, Leslie Robertson, Lesley Peterson, Juliet McMaster, Tom Penner, Kirsten Uszkalo, Leslie Robertson, Lesley Peterson, Juliet McMaster, Tom Penner, and Kirsten Uszkalo, Juvenilia Press, 2003, p. ii - viii.

Porter, Anna Maria. Octavia. T. N. Longman, 1798.

Porter, Anna Maria. Roche-Blanche. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.

Porter, Anna Maria. Tales of Pity on Fishing, Shooting, and Hunting. J. Harris, 1814.

Porter, Jane, and Anna Maria Porter. Tales Round a Winter Hearth. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826.

Porter, Anna Maria. The Barony. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830.

Porter, Anna Maria. The Fast of St Magdalen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818.

Porter, Anna Maria. The Hungarian Brothers. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

Porter, Anna Maria. The Knight of St John. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. http://U of A, Special Collections, http://U of A, Special Collections.

Porter, Anna Maria. The Lake of Killarney. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804.

Porter, Anna Maria. The Recluse of Norway. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814.

Porter, Anna Maria. The Village of Mariendorpt. Longman, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.

Porter, Anna Maria. Walsh Colville. Lee and Hurst; T. C. Jones, 1797.