Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
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.
114
The work was dedicated to Jane Porter
, who had found...
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, http://U of A, Special Collections.
prelims
Two further English editions, a New York edition, and...
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.
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
The marriage ended around 1810 in an acrimonious separation. SD
left her husband, for what her supporters later said were sufficient reasons.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Years later Jane Porter
wrote that SDis known by the name...
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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...
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...
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, Macmillan.
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.
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Jane Porter
, Amelia Opie
(that warm-hearted person),
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
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Timeline
23-24 June 1314: The English attempt to conquer Scotland was...
National or international item
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 ...
29 November 1830 - May 1831: Uprisings in Poland were suppressed by Russia...
National or international item
29 November 1830 - May 1831
Uprisings in Poland were suppressed by Russia after considerable military operations.
9 August 1838: The Hampstead circulating library, intended...
Writing climate item
9 August 1838
The Hampstead circulating library, intended for the middling and lower ranks, which had stocked no novels on principle except those of Scott
and Edgeworth
, found these were borrowed so much more often than...
Texts
Porter, Jane. A Sketch of the Campaigns of Count Alexander Suwarrow Rymnikski. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804.
Sidney, Sir Philip. Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney. Editor Porter, Jane, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.
Porter, Anna Maria, and Jane Porter. Coming Out; and, The Field of the Forty Footsteps. Longman, 1828.
Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824, http://U of A, Special Collections.
Porter, William Ogilvie. Sir Edward Seaward’s Narrative of his Shipwreck. Editor Porter, Jane, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831.
Porter, Jane, and Anna Maria Porter. Tales Round a Winter Hearth. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826.
Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803.
Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.
Porter, Jane. The Pastor’s Fire-Side. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, http://U of A, Special Collections.
Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810.
Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs. Derby and Jackson, 1856.
Porter, Jane. The Two Princes of Persia. Crosby and Letterman, 1801.
