Eleanor Anne Porden

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EAP is that rare thing, an early nineteenth-century woman writer of Romantic epic poems. Her personal letters are also outstanding.

Milestones

14 July 1795

EAP was born in a Georgian mansion in Devonshire Place, London.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. John Franklin’s Bride. Editor Gell, Edith M., John Murray.
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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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30 March 1818

EAP , visiting the expeditionary ships Alexander and Isabella (in dock at Deptford), had the idea for writing The Arctic Expeditions. A Poem, published that year.
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22 February 1825

EAP died of tuberculosis, six days after her husband embarked on an expedition to look for the Northwest Passage.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. John Franklin’s Bride. Editor Gell, Edith M., John Murray.
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Biography

Birth and Background

14 July 1795

EAP was born in a Georgian mansion in Devonshire Place, London.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. John Franklin’s Bride. Editor Gell, Edith M., John Murray.
xii
L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett.
1: 146

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