Jane Porter
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Standard Name: Porter, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Porter
JP
was largely an early nineteenth-century author: though she reached print before the end of the previous century, she let her younger and more prolific sister get the start of her in publishing. She wrote plays, poems, and diaries, and edited Sir Philip Sidney
, but she began with and is best known for her pioneering of the historical novel.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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, 1993. 13: 37 |
Dedications | Agnes Strickland | The early work had been done by Elizabeth, but Agnes cherished for Mary a romantic passion that she bestowed on no other queen. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940. 114 |
Dedications | Elizabeth Strickland | Elizabeth
collaborated with her sister again in an edition of the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1842, a project which she began and which Agnes later joined. Many of these letters were appearing... |
Dedications | Anna Maria Porter | It is dedicated to the author's mother and sister
: Those Dear Friends, in whose domestic society the principal part of this work was composed. Porter, Anna Maria. The Knight of St John. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. prelims |
Education | Annie S. Swan | ASS
says her first conscious memory was of telling a quite deliberate lie at the age of five, and basely tempt[ing] two infant brothers to share my crime. Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934. 14 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Selina Davenport | Her father, Captain Charles Granville Wheler
, was a great-nephew of Sir George Wheler
, a traveller, clergyman, scholar, and early member of the Royal Society
, who had a family estate in Kent. (... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Theresa Kemble | They had become engaged in 1800. John Philip Kemble
and other family members disapproved, and perhaps hoped that Charles would change his mind if made to wait. People saw MTK
's manners as rough and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Selina Davenport | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Maria Porter | AMP
's sister Jane
was a writer like herself. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 257 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Selina Davenport | In 1834 Jane Porter
was making strenuous efforts to find a publisher for a novel, Young Hearts (which she called indeed a pretty thing), written not by SD
but by her younger daughter, Theodora Peers |
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 | Eliza Fenwick | Other more or less radical friends of EF
included Thomas Holcroft
, Anne Plumptre
, Elizabeth Benger
, Jane Porter
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and their friend Sarah Stoddart |
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 Ogilvy Benger | The guests included Joanna Baillie
, Jane Porter
(both mentioned as celebrities) and Eliza Fenwick
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Sadler, ThomasEditor , Macmillan, 1872. 199-200 Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She knew most of the literary women of her day, including Felicia Hemans
(who wrote to ask her for an autograph), L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882. 1: 173-4 Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy KinghamEditor , Harper and Brothers, 1870. 2: 213 |
Timeline
23-24 June 1314
The English attempt to conquer Scotland was fought off by Scottish forces under Robert Bruce
at the Battle of Bannockburn near Stirling.
By April 1818
John Keats
published Endymion: A Poetic Romance.
29 November 1830 - May 1831
Uprisings in Poland were suppressed by Russia after considerable military operations.