She had moved in 1844 to the Bristol, or Clifton, house of her brother William Ogilvie Porter
, where she had already been a frequent visitor.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Porter
Of her brothers William
, John, and Robert
, she had the closest adult relationship with Robert, who was born the year after her and who became a painter, soldier, and diplomat, working in Russia...
Textual Production
Jane Porter
JP
is sometimes called the author of Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative of his Shipwreck, 1831, but manuscript evidence shows that it was written by her brother William Porter
. JP
edited it for publication...
Travel
Anna Maria Porter
They visited, perhaps frequently, their brother William Ogilvie Porter
, who practised as a doctor at Clifton near Bristol.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Timeline
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Texts
Porter, William Ogilvie. Sir Edward Seaward’s Narrative of his Shipwreck. Editor Porter, Jane, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831, 3 vols.