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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 | Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny | MLCC
mentions her warm friendships with leading officers of the Royal Navy
, whom she knew through her husband's position. A number of writers too, including Mariana Starke
, became her personal friends. Crawford, Elizabeth. “Posts tagged Mariana Starke”. Woman and her Sphere. 2 November 2012 |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Holford | Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott
, and although their relationship got off... |
| Friends, Associates | Agnes Strickland | They began to build a network of literary friends and potential supporters: Thomas Campbell
, Robert Southey
, Charles Lamb
, editor William Jerdan
, and even more helpfully women like Barbara Hofland
, Jane |
| 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. |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Theresa Kemble | One of those who entertained early doubts about MTK
was Jane Porter
. She, however, was won round, and wrote a sonnet for her on Charles Kemble's absence abroad in 1801. 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. 327 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | One of those prepared to welcome her was Elizabeth Benger
, who invited the brother and sister to tea, and was keen to get them back again to meet Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
... |
| 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 |
| 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, p. ix - xi. ix |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. 1: 136 |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Adelaide O'Keeffe | Jane Porter
wrote to AOK
from Portland Place, London, to congratulate her on Patriarchal Times: a letter which was reproduced in the fourth edition. O’Keeffe, Adelaide. Patriarchal Times. C. and J. Rivington. prelims |
| 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... |
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