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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 descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Harriet Lee | HL
, like her sister, was personally friendly with many other writers of her day: Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
, Ann Radcliffe
(even though the latter probably did not, as often reported, attend the... |
| Friends, Associates | Sophia Lee | Their school, together with their literary careers, brought SL
and her sisters a wide circle of friends and contacts, including Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
. The novelist Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins describes Sophia as surrounded... |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Eliza Lynn met a number of women authors who were once applauded but later complacently forgotten . . . . as literary fossils. Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton. 85 |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Anne Marsh | The title-page bore a creative misquotation from William Wordsworth
: She lived within her father's halls . . . And very few to love—which converts the rustic Lucy into an upper-class heroine like AM |
| 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 | 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. 1: 173-4 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. 2: 213 |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
's literary friendships with Sydney, Lady Morgan
, and with Jane Porter
were carried on, perforce, largely by letter. O’Keeffe, Adelaide, and John O’Keeffe. “Memoirs”. O’Keeffe’s Legacy to his Daughter, edited by Adelaide O’Keeffe and Adelaide O’Keeffe, G. Whittaker, p. x - xxxv. xi |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Parsons | Evidence of friendship between these two novelists is interesting because Parsons was a model of respectability while association with Robinson could potentially damage another woman's reputation. At this date Robinson (who had only another five... |
| 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 |
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