He was in his early twenties, just embarking on a literary career which began with writing poetry (melancholy in tone) and editing and criticising the poetry of others. He enjoyed the patronage of Edmund Burke
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
Textual Production
Jane Porter
In her later years JP
wrote for military and popular journals,
gift-books and annuals (beginning with Friendship's Offering for 1826, which was published in Novewmber 1825) and including Fraser's Magazine, Samuel Hall
's...