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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Anna Maria Porter | AMP
and her sister
published two novels together in three volumes: Coming Out; and, The Field of the Forty Footsteps; the first novel (two volumes) was by Anna Maria, and the other (volume three)... |
| Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | Even before settling in London, AS
began her professional authorial career with tales for children, many published in The Parting Gift, of which she was at that time the editor. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940. 22 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The final travel book by EIS
, Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816, used letters sent to Jane Porter
during her journey. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. prelims v |
| Textual Production | Anna Maria Porter | From this point on, she followed her sister
in making this genre her own. The Hungarian Brothers went through about sixteen printings in England and the USA (up to 1850) as well as a French... |
| 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 |
| 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. 4 Aug. 2011. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The title-page quotes Burns
and Scott
. The preface remarks that books based on female impressions of national manners and moral character have succeeded in the past. Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, and Scenery of Scotland. 2nd ed., Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811, 2 vols. prelims iv |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. Owens Blackburne | The scope of Illustrious Irishwomen is broad, beginning with half-legendary Blackburne, E. Owens. Illustrious Irishwomen. Tinsley Brothers, 1877, 2 vols. I: 2 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | About the first twenty pages are occupied by MT
's early reminiscences, probably written not long after her first husband's death: she frankly recorded her emotional disturbance over that event. Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Second edition, revised, Parker and Bourn, 1862. 18 |
| 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... |
| 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’, May 1998. Looser, Devoney. Email to Isobel Grundy about Selina Davenport. 4 Aug. 2011. |
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