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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | In London in 1824 she had a socially unsuccessful meeting with Wordsworth
, who was by now a thorough reactionary in politics. He went to some pains to snub her; she refused to notice this... |
| 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 | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | The guests included Joanna Baillie
, Jane Porter
(both mentioned as celebrities) and Eliza Fenwick
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, 3rd ed., Macmillan, 1872, 2 vols. 199-200 Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | MS
also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter
, Catherine Gore
, Caroline Norton
, and LEL
. She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore
, Prosper Mérimée
, Washington Irving |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Hatton | AH
was to look back fondly on time spent with American writer Margaretta Faugeres
in a clematis-covered cottage on the banks of the Hudson. Hatton, Ann. Woman’s a Riddle. A. K. Newman, 1824. prelims |
| Friends, Associates | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
's literary friendships with Sydney, Lady Morgan
, and with Jane Porter
were carried on, perforce, largely by letter. O’Keeffe, Adelaide, and John O’Keeffe. “Memoirs”. O’Keeffe’s Legacy to his Daughter, edited by Adelaide O’Keeffe and Adelaide O’Keeffe, G. Whittaker, 1834, p. x - xxxv. xi |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Hamilton, herself a conservative, set about de-demonizing EF
's political reputation. She had good success in persuading her friends that Mrs Fletcher was not the ferocious Democrat she had been represented, and that she neither... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Brunton | MB
's first heroine, Laura Montreville, daughter of a Scottish officer, covets Christian martyrdom as a child, in rather the same spirit as George Eliot
's Dorothea Brooke and other idealistic, immature heroines. As a... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | B. M. Croker | Maurice grows up and grows handsome. On later visits he performs a dangerous and heroic rescue of a local girl from the path of a train, and takes Nora out hunting: a more adult mode... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sara Maitland | She points out that for all Brunton's highly moralistic intentions, Maitland, Sara, and Mary Brunton. “Introduction”. Self-Control, Pandora, 1986, p. ix - xi. ix |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | Spence's title-page bears a quotation from James Cririe
, a little-known Scots poet whom Burns had praised (and whom she cites several times later in her text). Perhaps for the sake of her original audience... |
| Leisure and Society | Maria Susanna Cooper | MSC
kept up with contemporary publications. She asked her son Astley to send her from London the latest volume of Johnson
's edition of Shakespeare Cooper, Bransby Blake. The Life of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. John W. Parker, 1843, 2 vols. 1: 136 |
| Literary responses | Fanny Holcroft | The Critical gave this novel a detailed notice starting from the proposition that FH
had not had critical justice because of unfair comparisons with her eminent father. It praised the contrast in personality between the... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Elizabeth Isabella Spence
praised this poem in print not long after its appearance (though she conceded that its view of Wallace was not so accurate as that of Jane Porter
's almost contemporaneous rendering in... |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Porter | The Critical found the novel lively and colourful, and supplied generous quotations. It did not mention or speculate about the author's gender. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2d ser. 21 (1797): 474 |
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