Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs. Derby and Jackson, 1856.
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Dedications | Jane Porter | She wrote this novel while living in London. Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs. Derby and Jackson, 1856. 19 Feminist Companion Archive. |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | She had already begun to move in fashionable circles, and became friendly with Lady Caroline Lamb
, Lady Cork
, and painters James Northcote
and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix. xxxvii |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW
and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801... |
Literary Setting | Jane Porter | JP
opens her story in early 1792, on the eve of Poland's unsuccessful bid for independence in the Kościuszko
Uprising, and continues it in London, which was beginning to function as a haven... |
politics | Amelia Opie | AO
's admiration for military heroes also extended to Kosciusko
and later to the Duke of Wellington
and General Lafayette
. In other respects, however, she fully shared the anti-war stance of her fellow Quakers. Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38. 32 |
Textual Features | Jane Porter | Her Thaddeus owes much to Kościuszko, but he is only half Polish: his English father abandoned his royally-descended Polish mother. In the battle between the courageous underdog Poland and tyrannical Russia, Thaddeus forges a friendship... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Smith | A preface (in the first volume) quotes the words of Samuel Johnson
(with apology for applying them to so trifling a matter as novel-writing) about working at his dictionary amid grief and illness, feeling cut... |
Textual Features | Jane Porter | JP
's original dedication invoked the memory of Sir Philip Sidney
, who did not disdain to write a romance and who consigned his excellent Work to the Affection of a Sister Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803, 4 vols. prelims |
Textual Production | Jane Porter | In her later years JP
wrote for military and popular journals, McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter’s Later Works, 18251846”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 20 , No. 2, 1 June 2009– 2024, pp. 45-62. 47 |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Porter | An engraving after Richard Cosway
was published for the Whig Club
depicting the Polish national hero Kościuszko
with a quatrain in his praise contributed by AMP
. McLean, Thomas. The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 54, 57 |
Textual Production | Amelia Opie | AO
composed a political poem, Ode on the Present Times, about the fate of Poland, where Kościuszko
's independence struggle had recently been crushed. McLean, Thomas. The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 41 |
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