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	Jane Porter Biography and Summary
		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 rom...
		Jane Porter(1776- 1850) was an Irish novelist, the sister of Anna Maria Porter.
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	Porter (Painter) - LoveToKnow 1911
		Mrs Porter moved to London, so that her son might study art, and the sisters subsequently resided at Thames Ditton and at Esher with their mother until her death in 1831.
		The claim of her eldest brother, Dr William Ogilvie Porter, to its authorship rests on a memorial inscription in Bristol Cathedral, written by Jane.
		Jane Porter, who had joined him in Russia, then returned to England and took up her residence with her eldest brother at Bristol, where she died on the 24th of May 1850.
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	§20. Jane and Anna Maria Porter: "Thaddeus of Warsaw; The Scottish Chiefs". XIII. The Growth of the Later Novel. ...
		Jane and Anna Maria Porter: "Thaddeus of Warsaw; The Scottish Chiefs".
		The allowance which ought to be made for Maturin can hardly be extended to two sisters Jane and Anna Maria Porter, who, in their day, enjoyed something like fame, and who seem to have thought themselves unjustly supplanted in still greater fame by their early friend Scott.
		Anna Maria Porter began at a preposterous age (she was barely thirteen) to write fiction, and continued to do so till her death in 1832, producing in all, some two or threescore volumes.
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	§20. Jane and Anna Maria Porter: "Thaddeus of Warsaw; The Scottish Chiefs". XIII. The Growth of the Later Novel. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jane and Anna Maria Porter: "Thaddeus of Warsaw; The Scottish Chiefs".
		The allowance which ought to be made for Maturin can hardly be extended to two sisters Jane and Anna Maria Porter, who, in their day, enjoyed something like fame, and who seem to have thought themselves unjustly supplanted in still greater fame by their early friend Scott.
		Anna Maria Porter began at a preposterous age (she was barely thirteen) to write fiction, and continued to do so till her death in 1832, producing in all, some two or threescore volumes.
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	Jane and Anna Maria Porter
		Jane and Anna Maria Porter were English romantic novelists of Irish descent whose works have been translated into several foreign languages and gained for them some measure of success.
		Though Anna Marie began her writing career first, it was Jane whose fame lasted throughout the centuries.
		Porter moved the family, which included the two girls and two sons, to Edinburgh, Scotland for the education of her children.
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	§20. Jane and Anna Maria Porter: "Thaddeus of Warsaw; The Scottish Chiefs". XIII. The Growth of the Later Novel. ...
		Jane and Anna Maria Porter: "Thaddeus of Warsaw; The Scottish Chiefs".
		The allowance which ought to be made for Maturin can hardly be extended to two sisters Jane and Anna Maria Porter, who, in their day, enjoyed something like fame, and who seem to have thought themselves unjustly supplanted in still greater fame by their early friend Scott.
		Anna Maria Porter began at a preposterous age (she was barely thirteen) to write fiction, and continued to do so till her death in 1832, producing in all, some two or threescore volumes.
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	Jane Porter Biography / Profile
		Jane Porter was the daughter of an army officer who died when she was three years old.
		With the publication of her first novel Porter became as well known as her brother, the painter Sir Robert Ker Porter, and her sister, Anna Maria Porter, who was also a popular novelist of the period.
		Porter, who never married, spent much of her life in literary and artistic society and lived a happy and serene life, although her situation was financially somewhat straitened in her later years.
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	JANE PORTER (1776–1850) - Online Information article about JANE PORTER (1776–1850)
		Miss Porter has saved the story from the oblivion which has overtaken the works of most of Scott's predecessors in historical fiction.
		Diary (1831) was asserted by Miss Porter to be founded on documents placed in her hands by the author's See also:
		September 1832 Anna Maria died, and for the next ten years Jane became " a wanderer " amongst her relations and See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /POL_PRE/PORTER_JANE_17761850_.html (879 words)

	Jane and Anna Maria Porter
		Jane and Anna Maria Porter were sisters who were well known for being English romantic novelist.
		Jane and Anna Maria Porter were English romantic novelists of Irish descent whose works have been translated into several foreign languages and gained for them some measure of success.
		Porter moved the family, which included the two girls and two sons, to Edinburgh, Scotland for the education of her children.
	www.ri.essortment.com /janeannamarie_rfgn.htm (539 words)

	AllRefer.com - Anna Maria Porter (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Anna Maria Porter (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Anna Maria Porter, English Literature, 19th Century, Biographies
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	Anna Maria Porter - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Concepts of justice in the work of Katherine Anne Porter.
		Antonieta Rivas Mercado: Katherine Anne Porter's horror and inspiration.(Biography)
		Pests, parasites, and positionality: Anna Letitia Barbauld and "The Caterpillar".(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-Porter-AM.html (312 words)

	Jane Porter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jane Porter is also the name of the romantic interest of Tarzan in the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
		Jane Porter (1776-1850), was born in the Bailey in Durham City.
		Jane and Anna Maria Porter, who both lived in London and Surrey later on, were sisters of Sir Robert Ker Porter, the historical painter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jane_Porter (313 words)

	Porter Family Crest
		Porter was an occupational name for a gatekeeper or watchman deriving its origin from the Old French word "portier," meaning "doorman." In the royal castles, and in some monasteries, the office of Porter was usually hereditary, and lands and priveledges were usually connected to the position.
		Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Roger Porter, who settled in New England in 1638; with his wife and four children; Robert Porter settled in the Barbados in 1676 with his two children.
		In the Porter coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
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	AbeBooks: Search Results - Anna Maria Porter and Don Sebastian
		Anna Maria Porter (1780-1832) was a precocious young woman when she published her first novel, Walsh Colville, at the age of 17.
		Like her older sister, Jane Porter, Anna Maria remained single, devoting her lifelong energies to producing novels.
		Porter’s works are uncommonly seen in the marketplace (the present item is a rare book, ABPC listing just one copy since 1975), and when they do show up, they are printed on inexpensive paper and are usually in modest bindings.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Anna Maria Porter
		Anna Maria Porter (1780 - 1832), poet, novelist and sister of Jane Porter, was born in the Bailey in Durham, the posthumous child of William Porter (1735-1779), who had served as an army surgeon for 23 years.
		Anna at the age of 12 published Artless Tales.
		Anna also produced the humanitarian Tales of Pity on Fishing, Shooting and Hunting in 1814, and collaborated with her sister on collections of stories.
	reference.com /browse/wiki/Anna_Maria_Porter (237 words)

	British Women's Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Martin Porter that conveys the appeal of this short novel: "I came to Castle Rackrent imagining (from the title) it was going to be some Gothic romance, much inferior to [Edgeworth's 1801 novel] Belinda.
		It is a dramatic tale told in letters that is fairly short, but the long, complex footnotes by the author defending Irish culture and contributing to the Ossian debate are rather annoying and distract from the pleasure of the story.
		Of course, when Mary is ready for marriage, she reunites with her sister and fun complications occur which of course contrast a fashionable London education and a good, moral Scottish education.
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	ANNA MARIA PORTER BIOGRAPHY - LIFE - HISTORY - BOOKS - FACTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A short biography of ANNA MARIA PORTER, including life and history; from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin
		A romance, Sir Edward Seaward's Diary (1831), purporting to be a record of actual circumstances, and ed.
		Shows when ANNA MARIA PORTER was born and when died.
	www.321books.co.uk /gutenberg/cousin/p997.htm (297 words)

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		The younger of them, Miss Anna Maria Porter, b ecaine an authoress at twelve years of age; she wrote many successful novels, of which the most popular were the Hungarian Bro- thers, the Recluse of Norway, and the Village of Mariendorpt.
		Porter was buried in the churchyard at Esher; and on her tomb the passer-by may read this inscrip- tion, Here lies Jane Porter, a Christian widow.
		Miss Porter was a C hanoiness of the Polish order of St. Joachim, which honor was conferred upon her after the publication of Thaddeus of Warsaw.
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	Anna Maria Porter - BookwormSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The students of modern European history, and the readers of Anna Maria Porter's novels, are well aware of the romantic circumstances under which Don Sebastian, king of Portugal, disappeared from the face of the earth in 1578.
		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.
		Porter (portrait at the NPG) was the sister of the better-known Jane Porter, with whom she sometimes collaborated.
	www.bookwormsearch.com /topics/Anna-Maria-Porter (2870 words)

	Thomas Holcombe of Connecticut - Person Page 514
		Anna Maria Porter was born at Washington, DC.
		She was the daughter of John W. Porter and Rebecca Cheney.
		Anna Maria Porter married Harvey Holcomb Hayes, son of Obediah Hayes and Ahinoam Holcombe, on 19 April 1839; no issue.
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	In the year 1814
		When the celebrated Miss Anna Maria Porter was residing at Esher, in Surrey, an aged gentleman of her acquaintance, who lived in the same village, was in the habit of frequenting her house, usually making his appearance every evening, reading the newspaper, and taking his cup of tea.
		This was related by Miss Porter herself to Colonel H——, of the Second Life Guards, and by Colonel H——'s widow repeated to me, in London, during the month of February, 1859.
		Miss porter herself believed it such; and it appears that she had sent immediately, and that the old gentleman had died an hour before.
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	Amazon.com: "Anna Maria Porter": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Justinian Morier born Anna Maria Porter born Sir William Blackstone dies C.M. Wieland, Oberon William Beckford (1760-1844) Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters F Anonymous.
		i8io) and again by Anna Maria Porter in a similarly titled poem of 1811 [15], the vein was exhausted almost exactly a hundred years after Steele had...
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	Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842. Papers: Guide.
		Sir Robert Ker Porter was an English painter and traveler.
		Contains correspondence, mostly letters by Porter in St. Petersburg, Russia, to his mother and sister, novelist Jane Porter.
		Also journals, 1805-1808, kept by Porter in Russia, and a notebook with sketches, accounts and notes taken during a trip to Russia and Sweden.
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	ePier - The Scottish Chiefs - Jane Porter - HC- 1914
		Her life and reputation are closely linked with those of her sister, ANNA MARIA PORTER (1780-1832), novelist, and her brother, SIft ROBERT KER PORTER (1775-1842), painter and traveller.
		The story of Wallace had been a favorite one in her childhood, and she was probably well acquainted with the poem of Blind Harry (Henry the Minstrel).
		Although the book lacked historical accuracy, and the figure of Wallace is a sentimental, the picturesque power of narration displayed by Miss Porter has saved the story from the oblivion which has overtaken the works of most of Scotts predecessors in historical fiction.
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	Anna Maria Porter Biography and Summary
		Though a popular novelist in her day, Anna Maria Porter, unlike her older sister Jane, neither deserved nor achieved lasting fame.
		Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs (1810), still in print today, has reached British and American readers in more than one h...
		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.
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	AbeBooks: Search Results - Anna Maria Porter and The Hungarian Brothers
		Written when Porter was 27, this is the novel which brought her a wider fame.
		In 1807, Napoleon was the enemy of England and the oppressor of Austria-Hungary, and Miss Porter chooses the Austrian Archduke Charles as her hero.
		The novel is set at the end of the 18th century, just prior to the humiliation of the Danubian Empire at the hands of the Corsican.
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	Porter, Anna Maria, Le jeûne de Sainte Magdeleine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Porter, Anna Maria, Le jeûne de Sainte Magdeleine
		Porter, Anna Maria Le jeûne de Sainte Magdeleine Paris 1819
		Anna Maria Porter and her sister Jane were both popular writers of fiction, but differed greatly in temperament; Anna Maria, blonde and gay, was known to friends as "L'Allegro," and Jane, brunette and sombre, was dubbed "Il Penseroso." A pretty set, in fine condition, complete with half-titles.
	www.polybiblio.com /ximenes/B2973.html (137 words)

	Anna Porter Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
		On long walks through the once-grand European capital of Budapest, set on the banks of the Danube, in confidences whispered in splendid fin-de-siecle coffee houses, Vili Racz shared his wisdom and his stories with his granddaughter Anna.
		Some of his stories were as old as the Carpathian basin and some still held the sting of recent war and hardship...
		The diarist Anna Larpent, then an unmarried girl of eighteen, was among the...
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