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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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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... |
| 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. prelims |
| Reception | Anne Grant | James Kirke Paulding
published a popular rewriting of AG
's Memoirs of an American Lady entitled The Dutchman's Fireside. The title was apparently chosen on account of Jane Porter
's The Pastor's Fire-Side, 1817. Athenæum. J. Lection. 200 (1831): 549 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Eliza Fenwick | EF
's personal letters, as represented by the survivors among them from every stage of her life, are still highly readable. She wrote to her son Orlando while he was away at school, and to... |
| 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 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Selina Davenport | SD
was said to have received some money throughout much of her life from the Wheler estate (in Kent) or from a Mrs Wheler. Watkins, Louise. “Selina Davenport”. Corvey ’Adopt an Author’. Looser, Devoney. Email to Isobel Grundy about Selina Davenport. |
| Friends, Associates | Selina Davenport | As well as Jane Porter
, SD
had some acquaintance with Elizabeth Gaskell
, who wrote a letter (formal in tone, dated 26 April 1854) in support of her RLF application. She wrote in the... |
| Textual Production | Selina Davenport | Some of her letters to Jane Porter
survive at the Huntington Library
and the New York Public Library
. Looser, Devoney. Email to Isobel Grundy about Selina Davenport. |
| 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. (... |
| 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. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Selina Davenport | |
| Occupation | Selina Davenport | During her marriage SD
worked at running a school, which, however, was far from profitable. She also supported her daughters through her writing, and opened another unsuccessful school at Greenwich after she left her husband.... |
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