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Jane Porter
English novelist and dramatist (–)
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Jane Porter | |
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Jane Porter, from The Ladies' Monthly Museum | |
| Born | ()17 January Durham, England, UK |
| Died | 24 May () (aged&#;74) Bristol, England, UK |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | English |
| Citizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Period | – |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Subject | Historical documentary |
| Notable works | The Scottish Chiefs |
Jane Porter (3 månad – 24 May ) was an English historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure.[1][2] Her bestselling novels, Thaddeus of Warsaw () and The Scottish Chiefs () are seen as among the earliest historical novels in a modern style and among the first to become bestsellers. They were abridged and remained popular among children well into the twentieth century.
Life
[edit]Jane Porter was born in Durham, England,
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For International Women’s Day , the historic libraries of Magdalene are highlighting the life and work of the novelist Jane Porter (c). There has been renewed interest in Jane Porter and her sister Anna Maria () due to the recent publication Sister Novelists by Prof. Devoney Looser. A copy of this biography of the Porter sisters is available in the New Library for current Magdalene students to borrow.
Looser demonstrates the importance of the Porters’ work as a precursor to the novels of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and the Brontës, and makes extensive use of the vast collection of Porter family correspondence, which is spread between several repositories such as the Huntington Library in California. We may now add, albeit in a small way, Magdalene College to this list of repositories. The Old Library holds two letters by Jane Porter in the Van de Weyer albums, a collection of autograph letters and engraved portraits compiled by Jean-S
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Jane Porter ( – ) was born in Durham, the daughter of Jane Blenkinsop ( – ) and army surgeon William Porter ( – ) who married in Her ancestors included royalist Endymion Porter ( – ); Sir William Porter (d), who fought at Agincourt, and the radical John Tweddell ( – ). Porter had four siblings: John ( – ), a Colonel; William ( – ), a naval surgeon; Robert ( – ), court painter to Tsar Alexander I, and Anna Maria ( – ), a writer who collaborated with Porter on short story collections.
After her father’s death, in , the three youngest children and Porter’s mother, ‘born on the border lands’, moved to Edinburgh. The girls attended George Fulton’s school and, significantly, learnt from oral tradition. Anna Maria’s nurse, Bel Johnston, told tales of the Edinburgh widows whose husbands ‘died in defence of Prince Charles’. Luckie Forbes shared folk histories, describing Wallace ‘as if she had seen him’ (Porter ). In , the family moved to Northern England, then London and, in , to