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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Parsons | Evidence of friendship between these two novelists is interesting because Parsons was a model of respectability while association with Robinson could potentially damage another woman's reputation. At this date Robinson (who had only another five... |
| 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. prelims |
| 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, p. x - xxxv. xi |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She knew most of the literary women of her day, including Felicia Hemans
(who wrote to ask her for an autograph), L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 173-4 Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 213 |
| 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. 2 November 2012 |
| Textual Production | Anne Marsh | The title-page bore a creative misquotation from William Wordsworth
: She lived within her father's halls . . . And very few to love—which converts the rustic Lucy into an upper-class heroine like AM |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sara Maitland | She points out that for all Brunton's highly moralistic intentions, Maitland, Sara, and Mary Brunton. “Introduction”. Self-Control, Pandora, p. ix - xi. ix |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Eliza Lynn met a number of women authors who were once applauded but later complacently forgotten . . . . as literary fossils. Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton. 85 |
| 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 | 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
... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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