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.
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...
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.
257
Family and Intimate relationships
Selina Davenport
The marriage ended around 1810 in an acrimonious separation. SD
left her husband, for what her supporters later said were sufficient reasons.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Years later Jane Porter
wrote that SDis known by the name...
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
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.
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Her mother took care to cultivate...
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.
114
The work was dedicated to Jane Porter
, who had found...
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
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, http://U of A, Special Collections.
prelims
Two further English editions, a New York edition, and...
death
Mary Robinson
An autopsy revealed six large gall-stones.
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.
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...
