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.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 |
Publishing | Anna Maria Porter | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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