 Jane Porter, from The Ladies' Monthly Museum Jane Porter (1776-1850), was born in the Bailey in Durham City. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Year 1776 (MDCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
For the game, see: 1850 (board game) 1850 (MDCCCL) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
It was said that she used to rise at four in the morning in order to read and write. She read the whole of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene while still a child. Reputedly tall and beautiful, as she grew up her grave and preoccupied air earned her the nickname 'La Penseroso', possibly a reference recalling the poem 'Il Penseroso' by John Milton meaning 'A brooding or melancholy person or personality'. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
Una and the Lion by Briton Rivière The Faerie Queene is a poem by Edmund Spenser, first published in 1590 (the first half) with the more or less complete version being published in 1596. ...
After her father's death, the family moved to Edinburgh, where Walter Scott was a regular visitor. Some time afterward the family moved to London, where the sisters became acquainted with a number of literary women: Elizabeth Inchbald, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Mrs De Crespigny. Raeburns portrait of Sir Walter Scott in 1822. ...
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld (June 20, 1743—March 9, 1825) was an English poet and miscellaneous writer. ...
Hannah More (February 2, 1745 - September 7, 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist. ...
Portrait of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1812, by Sir Henry Raeburn. ...
Her novel Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) is one of the earliest examples of the historical novel and went through a dozen editions. It was based on eye-witness accounts from Polish refugees of the doomed independence struggle of the 1790s, and was praised by the great Polish patriot Kosciusko. The Scottish Chiefs (1810) a novel about William Wallace, was also a success (the French version was banned by Napoleon) and has remained popular with Scottish children. She wrote a number of novels, as well as two plays. The latter, however, were less successful. She also contributed to various periodicals. The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...
A romance, Sir Edward Seaward's Diary (1831), purporting to be a record of actual circumstances, and edited by Jane, is generally believed to have been written by a brother, Dr. William Ogilvie Porter.
Jane and Anna Maria Porter, who both lived in London and Surrey later on, were sisters of Sir Robert Ker Porter, the historical painter. Anna Maria Porter (1780 - 1832) and her sister, Jane (1776 - 1850), novelists, were the daughter of an Irish army surgeon, and sisters of Sir Robert Ker Porter, the painter and traveller. ...
References - McMillan, Dorothy. "Porter, Jane." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- "Porter, Jane." British Women Writers: a critical reference guide. Janet Todd, ed. London: Routledge, 1989. 542-543.
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