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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | 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... |
| 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.... |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Sarah Tytler | ST
found in J. A. Froude
of Fraser's Magazine a very agreeable editor who gave his contributors a free hand, was sympathetic, could pay a cordial compliment, while such criticism as he offered was gentle... |
| Publishing | Amelia Bristow | A list of about 210 subscribers is given in the volume. They included Hannah More
and Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
. A sixth edition appeared in 1847. Loeber, Rolf, and Magda Loeber. A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900. Four Courts. 180 Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 660 |
| Publishing | Anna Maria Porter | |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Joanna Baillie | JB
said she admired her heroine Lady Grisell
(whose story she wrote in a few weeks during the winter of 1816-17) beyond any Female Character I ever knew or read of. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 168 |
| Textual Features | Sarah Trimmer | In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as... |
| Textual Features | Agnes Strickland | The book loaded its subject with praise, and eagerly described royal pomp and circumstance, particularly the recent wedding. Jane Porter
had covered this from Pall Mall while AS
was in the Abbey; the author... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | Some time after January 1817 SSW
published, with her name, a chapbook version of Jane Porter
's The Pastor's Fire-Side. She used a much extended, highly descriptive title: The Pastor's Fireside; or, Memoirs of... |
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