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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
's literary friendships with Sydney, Lady Morgan
, and with Jane Porter
were carried on, perforce, largely by letter. O’Keeffe, Adelaide, and John O’Keeffe. “Memoirs”. O’Keeffe’s Legacy to his Daughter, edited by Adelaide O’Keeffe and Adelaide O’Keeffe, G. Whittaker, 1834, p. x - xxxv. xi |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Hamilton, herself a conservative, set about de-demonizing EF
's political reputation. She had good success in persuading her friends that Mrs Fletcher was not the ferocious Democrat she had been represented, and that she neither... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | MS
also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter
, Catherine Gore
, Caroline Norton
, and LEL
. She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore
, Prosper Mérimée
, Washington Irving |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Hatton | AH
was to look back fondly on time spent with American writer Margaretta Faugeres
in a clematis-covered cottage on the banks of the Hudson. Hatton, Ann. Woman’s a Riddle. A. K. Newman, 1824. prelims |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Robinson | After MR
became known as the prince's mistress, the double standard in public morality made it virtually impossible for respectable women to treat her as a friend. Her admiration for Sarah Siddons
was not reciprocated... |
| 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. |
| Friends, Associates | Agnes Strickland | They began to build a network of literary friends and potential supporters: Thomas Campbell
, Robert Southey
, Charles Lamb
, editor William Jerdan
, and even more helpfully women like Barbara Hofland
, Jane |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Lee | HL
, like her sister, was personally friendly with many other writers of her day: Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
, Ann Radcliffe
(even though the latter probably did not, as often reported, attend the... |
| Friends, Associates | Sophia Lee | Their school, together with their literary careers, brought SL
and her sisters a wide circle of friends and contacts, including Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
. The novelist Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins describes Sophia as surrounded... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Maria Porter | The young Walter Scott
was a neighbour of the Porters in Edinburgh and a childhood friend to AMP
and Jane. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 265 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. under Jane Porter |
| Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | In her memoirs LA
claims to have been acquainted with all the notable literary women of her time. She was a close friend of Joanna Baillie
and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
. Another important friend and... |
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