Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
13: 37
Though not much past forty, she had outlived all of her immediate family except her daughter and one brother. Jane Porter
wrote an obituary intended for periodical...
Dedications
Elizabeth Strickland
Elizabeth
collaborated with her sister again in an edition of the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1842, a project which she began and which Agnes later joined. Many of these letters were appearing...
Dedications
Agnes Strickland
The early work had been done by Elizabeth, but Agnes cherished for Mary a romantic passion that she bestowed on no other queen.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
114
The work was dedicated to Jane Porter
, who had found...
Dedications
Anna Maria Porter
It is dedicated to the author's mother and sister
: Those Dear Friends, in whose domestic society the principal part of this work was composed.
Porter, Anna Maria. The Knight of St John. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, 3 vols., http://U of A, Special Collections.
prelims
Two further English editions, a New York edition, and...
Education
Annie S. Swan
ASS
says her first conscious memory was of telling a quite deliberate lie at the age of five, and basely tempt[ing] two infant brothers to share my crime.
Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934.
14
Her mother took care to cultivate...
Family and Intimate relationships
Maria Theresa Kemble
They had become engaged in 1800. John Philip Kemble
and other family members disapproved, and perhaps hoped that Charles would change his mind if made to wait. People saw MTK
's manners as rough and...
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
257
Family and Intimate relationships
Selina Davenport
In 1834 Jane Porter
was making strenuous efforts to find a publisher for a novel, Young Hearts (which she called indeed a pretty thing), written not by SD
but by her younger daughter, Theodora Peers
Friends, Associates
Margaret Holford
Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott
, and although their relationship got off...
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, 26 July 2012.
2 November 2012
Friends, Associates
Maria Theresa Kemble
One of those who entertained early doubts about MTK
was Jane Porter
. She, however, was won round, and wrote a sonnet for her on Charles Kemble's absence abroad in 1801.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
327
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
Selina Davenport
Her tempestuous but close friendship with Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
began by the mid 1790s.
Looser, Devoney. Email to Isobel Grundy about Selina Davenport. 4 Aug. 2011.
Her marriage caused a hiatus in this friendship, but it later resumed, and in any case with Jane it...
Timeline
23-24 June 1314: The English attempt to conquer Scotland was...
National or international item
23-24 June 1314
The English attempt to conquer Scotland was fought off by Scottish forces under Robert Bruce
at the Battle of Bannockburn near Stirling.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Robert I
By April 1818: John Keats published Endymion: A Poetic ...
McLean, Thomas. “Off-Stage Dramas: Jane Porter, Edmund Kean, and the Tragedy of SwitzerlandKeats-Shelley Review, Vol.
25
, No. 2, Maney Publishing, Sept. 2011, pp. 147-59.
153-4
29 November 1830 - May 1831: Uprisings in Poland were suppressed by Russia...
National or international item
29 November 1830 - May 1831
Uprisings in Poland were suppressed by Russia after considerable military operations.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
110
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
132-4
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
69
McLean, Thomas. The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
86
9 August 1838: The Hampstead circulating library, intended...
Writing climate item
9 August 1838
The Hampstead circulating library, intended for the middling and lower ranks, which had stocked no novels on principle except those of Scott
and Edgeworth
, found these were borrowed so much more often than...
Texts
Porter, Jane. A Sketch of the Campaigns of Count Alexander Suwarrow Rymnikski. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804.
Sidney, Sir Philip. Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney. Editor Porter, Jane, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807, 2 vols.
Porter, Anna Maria, and Jane Porter. Coming Out; and, The Field of the Forty Footsteps. Longman, 1828, 3 vols.
Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824, 3 vols., http://U of A, Special Collections.
Porter, William Ogilvie. Sir Edward Seaward’s Narrative of his Shipwreck. Editor Porter, Jane, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831, 3 vols.
Porter, Jane, and Anna Maria Porter. Tales Round a Winter Hearth. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826, 2 vols.
Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803, 4 vols.
Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. 10th ed., Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819, 4 vols.
Porter, Jane. The Pastor’s Fire-Side. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, 4 vols., http://U of A, Special Collections.
Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810, 5 vols.
Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs. Derby and Jackson, 1856.
Porter, Jane. The Two Princes of Persia. Crosby and Letterman, 1801.
