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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Selina Davenport | SD
was said to have received some money throughout much of her life from the Wheler estate (in Kent) or from a Mrs Wheler. Watkins, Louise. “Selina Davenport”. Corvey ’Adopt an Author’. Looser, Devoney. Email to Isobel Grundy about Selina Davenport. |
| Friends, Associates | Selina Davenport | As well as Jane Porter
, SD
had some acquaintance with Elizabeth Gaskell
, who wrote a letter (formal in tone, dated 26 April 1854) in support of her RLF application. She wrote in the... |
| Textual Production | Selina Davenport | Some of her letters to Jane Porter
survive at the Huntington Library
and the New York Public Library
. Looser, Devoney. Email to Isobel Grundy about Selina Davenport. |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | Other more or less radical friends of EF
included Thomas Holcroft
, Anne Plumptre
, Elizabeth Benger
, Jane Porter
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and their friend Sarah Stoddart |
| Textual Production | Eliza Fenwick | EF
's personal letters, as represented by the survivors among them from every stage of her life, are still highly readable. She wrote to her son Orlando while he was away at school, and to... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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. prelims |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation... |
| 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... |
| 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. 327 |
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