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Name: Jane Porter
Birth Date: 1776
Death Date: May 24, 1850
Nationality: British, Scottish, English
Gender: Female

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Biography of Jane Porter
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The following essay discusses Jane Porter and her sister, Anna Maria Porter. Jane Porter and her younger sister, Anna Maria, were well-known popular novelists of the early nineteenth century. The public's response to Jane Porter's moral and patriotic...
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Biography of Jane Porter
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Though virtually unread today, Jane Porter's Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) was one of the first British historical novels. As Porter suggested in her preface to the Standard Edition (1831) of the novel, in Waverley (1814) Sir Walter Scott did her "the...


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I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another. The best manner of avenging ourselves is by...


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Jane Porter Information
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Jane Porter (1776-1850), was born in the Bailey in Durham City. 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...


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Portland Press Herald (Maine)
Jane Porter, 86, loved crazy hats, social causes, new adventures
10/01/2005: 586 words, approx. 2 pages
L. Mercedes Wesel Staff Writer Portland Press Herald (Maine) 10-01-2005 Jane Porter, 86, loved crazy hats, social causes, new adventures Byline: L. Mercedes Wesel Staff Writer Edition: FINAL Section: Local & State Memo: lead obit; PASSAGES Each day the newsroom selects one obituary...
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The Modern Language Review
Resisting 'the spirit of innovation': the other historical novel and Jane Porter.(Critical essay)
07/01/2006: 8,426 words, approx. 28 pages
Reviewing Joanna Baillie's Metrical Legends (1821), Thomas Carlyle remarks that 'The Fate of Wallace has been singularly bad, both in life and after it', his fame left 'to a vulgar rhymer': We wish all this were remedied. Why does not the author...
 


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