Anna Maria Porter

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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.

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Katharine Elwood
Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ellen Weeton
Though she scorned circulating libraries, her recorded comments on books include praise for Anna Maria Porter 's The Lake of Killarney, Mary Ann Hanway 's Ellinor, and Elizabeth Hamilton 's The Cottagers of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. Owens Blackburne
The scope of Illustrious Irishwomen is broad, beginning with half-legendary
Blackburne, E. Owens. Illustrious Irishwomen. Tinsley Brothers.
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figures such as Queen Macha and Saint Brigit , and ending with near-contemporary Irishwomen such as Maria Edgeworth , Catherine Hayes , and...
Textual Production Elizabeth Ham
EH anonymously contributed Mabel (a ghost story about a deaf girl) to an anthology, The Remembrance, edited by Thomas Roscoe and dedicated to Queen Adelaide .
This volume also contained work by Felicia Hemans
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
BH 's correspondence with Mary Russell Mitford (whose earliest surviving letter dates from 25 May 1820) reveals her as an active and eclectic reader. The two women exchanged responses to Anna Maria Porter , Amelia Opie
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Even before settling in London, AS began her professional authorial career with tales for children, many published in The Parting Gift, of which she was at that time the editor.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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She published...
Textual Production Joanna Baillie
Here she gathered together poems by such writers as Walter Scott , George Crabbe , William Wordsworth , Robert Southey , Felicia Hemans (whose work Baillie warmly admired), Anne Grant of Laggan, Anna Maria Porter
Textual Production Jane Porter
In 1800 appeared a pamphlet essay which may be by JP or to her and her sister : A Defence of the Profession of an Actor.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Catalogue of Books By, For, and About Women of the British Isles, 1696-1892. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Thomas McLean
Textual Production Jane Porter
Late in her career JP co-authored collections with her more prolific younger sister : a two-volume collection of short stories (Tales Round a Winter Hearth (after February 1826), to which she contributed My Chamber...
Textual Features Elizabeth Cobbold
This collection features poetry by women such as Anna Maria Porter , Amelia Opie , Lucy Aikin , Elizabeth Carter , Anna Letitia Barbauld , Anne Hunter , Mary RobinsonCharlotte Smith , and EC herself.
Residence Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Immediately after her divorce MEBCS was living in Fludyer Street, London, but by the time she subscribed to the first volume of Anna Maria Porter 's juvenile Artless Tales (1793), her address was Purbrook...
Publishing Sarah Tytler
ST found in J. A. Froude of Fraser's Magazine a very agreeable editor who gave his contributors a free hand, was sympathetic, could pay a cordial compliment, while such criticism as he offered was gentle...
Publishing Amelia Bristow
A list of about 210 subscribers is given in the volume. They included Hannah More and Jane and Anna Maria Porter . A sixth edition appeared in 1847.
Loeber, Rolf, and Magda Loeber. A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900. Four Courts.
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Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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The full title is...
Publishing Jane Porter
JP seems not to have begun writing seriously as early as her younger sister, who probably reached print before her. She helped during the 1790s to write descriptive pamphlets to accompany her brother's earliest military...
Publishing Jane Porter
JP was seen as the senior partner in the paired agreements which she and her sister made with Longman on 1 June 1808. Each was to deliver a novel within a year; Jane was to...

Timeline

2 July 1798: The conservative Lady's Monthly Museum: or...

Writing climate item

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 et al., 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 et al. “Introduction”. Artless Tales, edited by Leslie Robertson et al., 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.
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.