Anna Maria Porter
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Standard Name: Porter, Anna Maria
Birth Name: Anna Maria Porter
Pseudonym: A. P—r
Though she also wrote poetry and other genres, The Recess) make national events a backdrop to private crises and intrigues. Though her earlier work was regularly judged inferior to that of her sister
, she became very successful.
'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 than female relationships. Her settings range across European history and geography; she is interested in independence struggles, and supports an idealised version of rational, constitutional, British middle-class polity against tyranny on the one hand and barbarianism on the other. Her plots emphasize sentiment and morality and (like
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Texts
Porter, Anna Maria. A Sailor’s Friendship, and a Soldier’s Love. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805, 2 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria, and Sir Robert Ker Porter. Artless Tales. Printed and sold for the author by L. Wayland, 1793.
Porter, Anna Maria. Artless Tales. Printed and sold for the author by Hookham and Carpenter, 1795.
Porter, Anna Maria, and Shannon Goetze. Artless Tales. Editors Robertson, Leslie et al., Juvenilia Press, 2003.
Porter, Anna Maria. Ballad Romances. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811.
Porter, Anna Maria. Coming Out. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828.
Porter, Anna Maria, and Jane Porter. Coming Out; and, The Field of the Forty Footsteps. Longman, 1828, 3 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria. Don Sebastian. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 4 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria. Honor O’Hara. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826, 3 vols.
Goetze, Shannon et al. “Introduction”. Artless Tales, edited by Leslie Robertson et al., Juvenilia Press, 2003, p. ii - viii.
Porter, Anna Maria. Octavia. T. N. Longman, 1798, 3 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria. Roche-Blanche. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822, 3 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria. Tales of Pity on Fishing, Shooting, and Hunting. J. Harris, 1814.
Porter, Jane, and Anna Maria Porter. Tales Round a Winter Hearth. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826, 2 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria. The Barony. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830, 3 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria. The Fast of St Magdalen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818, 3 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria. The Hungarian Brothers. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807, 3 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria. The Knight of St John. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, 3 vols., http://U of A, Special Collections.
Porter, Anna Maria. The Lake of Killarney. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804, 3 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria. The Recluse of Norway. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814, 4 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria. The Village of Mariendorpt. Longman, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821, 4 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria. Walsh Colville. Lee and Hurst; T. C. Jones, 1797.