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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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 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
She acknowledged...
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...
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.
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Jane Porter dated her dedication to Duke Christian of Luneburg, 26 January 1824, from Long...
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
Publishing Anna Maria Porter
AMP signed an agreement with Longman that within a year she and her sister would each deliver a new novel of the same length as The Hungarian Brothers.
Porter Family Correspondence at the Archives and Special Collections of Durham University Library. GB-0033-POR.
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
The full title is...
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...
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....
Literary responses Fanny Holcroft
The Critical gave this novel a detailed notice starting from the proposition that FH had not had critical justice because of unfair comparisons with her eminent father. It praised the contrast in personality between the...
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...
Literary responses Anna Maria Porter
The Critical found the novel lively and colourful, and supplied generous quotations. It did not mention or speculate about the author's gender.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 21 (1797): 474
Jane Porter described its hero a few years...
Literary responses Adelaide O'Keeffe
Jane Porter wrote to AOK from Portland Place, London, to congratulate her on Patriarchal Times: a letter which was reproduced in the fourth edition.
O’Keeffe, Adelaide. Patriarchal Times. C. and J. Rivington.
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Leisure and Society Maria Susanna Cooper
MSC kept up with contemporary publications. She asked her son Astley to send her from London the latest volume of Johnson 's edition of Shakespeare
Cooper, Bransby Blake. The Life of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. John W. Parker.
1: 136
and found the works of Hannah Morea...

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