The dedication to Percival Stockdale
(rector of Lesbury in Northumberland) praises his moral excellence, genius, taste, and judgment,
Porter, Anna Maria. The Lake of Killarney. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804, 3 vols.
1: iii
which AMP
(writing from Thames Ditton in Surrey) says his contemporaries do not...
Employer
Jane Porter
Stockdale
had help from JP
as an amanuensis while he was working on his memoirs; she also served during the years 1804-5 as his companion and even his nurse. He dedicated the memoirs to her...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Porter
Percival Stockdale
, indeed, evinced a quasi-romantic interest in her which she did not return and found unwelcome.
Looser, Devoney. “Jane Porter’s Percival Stockdale”. Newsletter of the Johnson Society of the Central Region, Dec. 2011, p. 3.
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Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
Their children's education provided opportunities to Lord and Lady Craven to act as literary patrons. In 1778, at the suggestion of Elizabeth Montagu
, Elizabeth Craven took on as governess the writer Madame Vaucluse (...
Friends, Associates
Jane Porter
While living in Esher, the Porter family were neighbours of Prince Leopold
, resident of Claremont and widower of Princess Charlotte (who died in 1817); their mother used to receive gifts of game and fruit...
Publishing
Jane Porter
JP
contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine a heartfelt obituary on her friend Percival Stockdale
.