Jane Porter

03 December 1775 - 24 May 1850

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.

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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...
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	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...
death	Mary Robinson	An autopsy revealed six large gall-stones. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 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...
Textual Production	Mary Robinson	She told Jane Porter on 27 August 1800 that this translation (which she began and finished in ten days although she was seriously ill) was a torment to her. Robinson, Mary. The Works of Mary Robinson. Editor Brewer, William D., Pickering and Chatto. 7 She also intended (like Mary Collyer
Publishing	Anna Maria Porter	AMP signed an agreement with Longman that within a year she and her sister would each deliver a new novel of the same length as The Hungarian Brothers. Porter Family Correspondence at the Archives and Special Collections of Durham University Library. GB-0033-POR.
Textual Production	Anna Maria Porter	AMP and her sister published Tales Round a Winter Hearth, a collection of short stories. Their note addressed to the reader is dated the month before this. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 33 (1826): 597 Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 632
Textual Production	Anna Maria Porter	AMP and her sister published two novels together in three volumes: Coming Out; and, The Field of the Forty Footsteps; the first novel (two volumes) was by Anna Maria, and the other (volume three)...
Author summary	Anna Maria Porter	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...
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. 257
Friends, Associates	Anna Maria Porter	The young Walter Scott was a neighbour of the Porters in Edinburgh and a childhood friend to AMP and Jane. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 265 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. under Jane Porter In London while Anna Maria was growing up, and even after...
Residence	Anna Maria Porter	From there, in 1822, they moved a few miles south to the slightly larger town of Esher. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 262-3 Jane Porter dated her dedication to Duke Christian of Luneburg, 26 January 1824, from Long...
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. 2d ser. 21 (1797): 474 Jane Porter described its hero a few years...
Textual Production	Anna Maria Porter	From this point on, she followed her sister in making this genre her own. The Hungarian Brothers went through about sixteen printings in England and the USA (up to 1850) as well as a French...
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, http://U of A, Special Collections. prelims Two further English editions, a New York edition, and...

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