Due to pandemic constraints, a full bibliography wasn't ultimately included in the printed pages of Sister Novelists. (All manuscript sources used are included in the notes in the back of the book, along with selected printed sources.) What follows here is a selected list of newly digitized--and freely available—Porter manuscript sources; selected modern editions; selected criticism on the Porters; and selected works consulted in the writing of Sister Novelists. These sources are provided here for those who like to follow research tracks more closely or who may seek to do further research of their own on the Porter sisters, women's writing, or literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Digitized Porter Family Manuscript Material
Modern Editions of the Porters' Works
Important Databases and Online Archives (some by subscription only)
Selected Literary Criticism and Scholarship on the Porter Family
Selected Pre-1900 Materials About the Porter Family
Selected Works Consulted in the Writing of Sister Novelists
Digitized Porter Family Manuscript Material
- University of Durham Porter Family Correspondence
- New York Public Library Pforzheimer Collection Jane Porter Papers
Modern Editions of the Porters' Works
- Porter, Anna Maria. Artless Tales. Ed. Juliet McMaster, Leslie Robertson, et al. Edmonton: Juvenilia Press, 2004.
- Porter, Anna Maria. Walsh Colville. Ed. David Owen. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2015.
- Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs. Ed. Fiona Price. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2007.
- Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. Ed. Thomas McLean and Ruth Knezevich. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2019.
Important Databases and Online Archives (some by subscription only)
- British Fiction, 1800-1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception.
- Cambridge Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Wills, 1384-1858, National Archives (UK).
Selected Literary Criticism and Scholarship on the Porter Family
- Adams, Michael, “Jane Porter,” Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Romantic Novelists, 1789-1832, Vol. 116, Ed. Bradford K. Mudge, Detroit: Gale Research, 1992, 264-270.
- Ancketill, Matthew. Strange Destiny: The Rediscovery of Sir Robert Ker Porter: A Life, Unpublished book manuscript, on deposit at Middle East Centre Archive, Oxford University.
- Armstrong, William M, "The Many-Sided World of Sir Robert Ker Porter," The Historian, vol. XXV, no. i, 1962, 36-58.
- Batchelor, Rhonda,” The Rise and Fall of the Eighteenth Century's Authentic Feminine Voice,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 6, 1994, 347-68.
- Brown, Susan, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, eds. Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Online, 2006. <//orlando.cambridge.org/>.
- “Burial: Porter Car Robert, Sir. Smolensk Lutheran Cemetery, n. d. https://spslc.ru/burial-places/porter-ker-robert.html
- Burwick, Frederick, “Jane Porter,” A History of Romantic Literature, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2019, 211.
- Carbone, Elettra “The Poetics of 1814: Representations of Norway, Norwegian Politics, and Norwegian Culture in The Recluse of Norway by Anna Maria Porter,” Scandinavica, Vol 54, No 1 (2015): 121-135.
- Dennis, Ian, Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
- Farington, Joseph, “Sir Ker Porter,” The Farington Diary, Ed. James Grieg, London: Hutchinson & Co, 1925, V: 118.
- Hamer, Lynne, “Folklore and History Studies in Early Nineteenth-Century England: Jane Porter and Anna Eliza Bray,” Folklore Historian, vol. 10, 1993, 5-28.
- Hook, A. D. “Jane Porter, Sir Walter Scott, and the Historical Novel,” CLIO, vol. 5, no. 2, 1976, 181-92.
- Hunter, J. Paul, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction, New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.
- Irvine, Robert Tate, Jr. “The Life of Jane Porter.” Master’s Thesis. University of Virginia, 1942.
- Johnson, R. Brimley, Romance in History, from Sir Walter Scott, Sophia Lee, John Leland, Maria Edgeworth, Susan Ferrier, Jane Porter, and Christopher North, London: John Lane, 1929.
- Jones, Ann H. Ideas and Innovations: Best Sellers of Jane Austen’s Age, New York: AMS Press, 1986.
- Joukovsky, Nicholas A, “Jane Porter's First Novel: The Evidence of an Unpublished Letter,” Notes & Queries, vol. 37, no. 235.1, 1990, 15-17.
- Keane, Angela, “The Importance of Elsewhere: Romantic Subjectivity and the Romance of History,” Wordsworth Circle, vol. XXVII, no. 1, 1996, 16-21.
- Kelly, Gary, “Introduction.” Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs. Vol. 4. Varieties of Female Gothic, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002. vii-lxiv.
- Knezevich, Ruth and Devoney Looser, “Jane Austen's Afterlife, West Indian Madams, and the Literary Porter Family: Two New Letters from Charles Austen,” Modern Philology, February 2015, Vol. 112, No. 3, 554-568.
- Linkin, Harriet Kramer, “The Citational Network of Tighe, Porter, Barbauld, Lefanu, Morgan, and Hemans,” Women’s Literary Networks and Romanticism: ‘A Tribe of Authoresses’, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017, 199.
- Looser, Devoney, “Another Jane: Jane Porter, Austen’s Contemporary.” New Windows on a Woman's World: Essays for Jocelyn Harris. 2 vols. Edited by Colin Gibson and Lisa Marr. U of Otago P, 2005, Vol. II, 235–48.
- Looser, Devoney, “The Great Man and Women’s Historical Fiction: Jane Porter and Sir Sidney Smith.” Women’s Writing, vol. 19, no. 3 (2012), 293–314.
- Looser, Devoney, “The Porter Sisters, Women’s Writing, and Historical Fiction,” The History of British Women’s Writing, Vol. 5: 1750–1830, edited by Jacqueline Labbe, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 233–53.
- Looser, Devoney, Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2008.
- McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter and the Wonder of Lord Byron,” Romanticism, vol. 18, no. 3, 2012, 250-259.
- McLean, Thomas. Jane Porter's Portrait of Benjamin West.” Huntington Library Quarterly 66.1/2 (2003): 169-75.
- McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter's Later Works, 1825-1846. Harvard Library Bulletin, 20.2 (Summer 2009), 45-62.
- McLean, Thomas. “Nobody’s Argument: Jane Porter and the Historical Novel,” The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, (Fall/Winter 2007), 88-103.
- McLean, Thomas, “Offstage Dramas: Jane Porter, Edmund Kean, and the Tragedy of Switzerland, The Keats-Shelley Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2011, 147-59.
- McLean, Thomas, The Other East: and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- McLean, Thomas, “When Hope Bade the World Farewell: British Responses to the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising” Wordsworth Circle, vol. 29, no. 3, 1998, 178-85.
- Mercer, T. S. “New Facts About Two Famous Authoresses,” The Esher News, 13 February 1959. n.p.
- Morton, Graeme. Ourselves and Others: Scotland, 1832-1914. Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
- Owen, David. “Watching Literature Happen: Anna Maria Porter’s Walsh Colville and Jane Austen’s Lady Susan,” Home and Away: The Place of the Child Writer, Ed. David Owen and Lesley Peterson, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, pp. 186-201.
- Philoscotus, “Scott and Jane Porter,” Notes & Queries, vol. 178 (1st series, x), Jan-June 1940, 408.
- Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs. Ed. Fiona Price. Peterborough: Broadview, 2007.
- Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw, Ed. Thomas McLean and Ruth Knezevich, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- Price, Fiona, “Jane Porter and the Authorship of Sir Edward Seaward’s Narrative: Previously Unpublished Correspondence,” Notes and Queries, March 2002, 55.
- Price, Fiona, “Resisting `the Spirit of Innovation': The Other Historical Novel and Jane Porter.” Modern Language Review, 101, no. 3 (2006): 638-51.
- Wilson, Mona. These Were Muses, London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1924.
- Woolsey, Linda Mills “Jane Porter. Anna Maria Porter.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Short-Fiction Writers, 1800-1880, vol. 159, Ed. John R. Greenfield, Detroit: Gale Research, 1996, 265-274.
- Zapatka, Francis E. “Jane Porter's Kosciuszko.” Heart of the Nation: Polish Literature and Culture, III. Eds. James S. Pula, M. B. Biskupski and Thomas J. Napierkowski. New York: East European Monographs, 1993. 167-79.
Selected Pre-1900 Materials About the Porter Family
- Davenport, Richard, “Sonnet: To Classicus”[Jane Porter], Pocket Magazine, June 1795, Vol. IV, p. 269.
- Davenport, Richard, “Sonnets: To Miss Anna Maria Porter,” The Monthly Visitor, Vol. 2 (1797), 51.
- Davenport, Richard, “To Serena,” The Monthly Visitor, Vol. 2 (1797), p. 55.
- Hall S. C. and Anna Maria Hall, “Memories of Authors,” The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 15, Issue 89, March 1865, 336.
- Hermit in London. “My First Visit to an Edinburgh Boarding House,”Angelo’s Pic Nic; or, Table Talk, Including Numerous Recollections of Public Characters . . . Written by Himself in Addition to Which are Several Original Literary Contributions. Ed. Henry Angelo. London: John Ebers, 1834, 190.
- Bristoliensis, “The Porter Family, of Bristol: Monumental Inscriptions, etc.,” Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, Vol. 3. London: William Kent & Co., 1887, 31.
- Bristoliensis, “The Porter Family,” Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, XXV, January 1885, 33.
- Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, Reminiscences of a Literary Life, London: John Major, 1836, I: 175.
- Dunelmensis, “Erroneous Monumental Inscriptions,” Notes and Queries, 3rd Series V, April 2, 1864, p. 289.
- Ellwood, Anne. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century, London: Henry Colburn, 1843. Vol. 2, p. 279.
- Hall, Mrs. S. C., “Memories of Miss Jane Porter,” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 1.IV, 1850, 433–38.
- Henderson, William. My Life as an Angler, London: W. Satchell, Peyton, & Co., 1879.
- [Porter, Jane] aka Miss St. Leger, “Youthful Imprudence,” Beauties of British Prose, edited by Sydney Melmouth, London: Benjamin Crosby, 1805, pp. 80-91.
- “The Porter Correspondence,” Notes and Queries, 8th series, VII, 2 February 1895, 87.
- “Porter Correspondence,” Notes and Queries, 8th series, VIII, 9 March 1895, 191.
- “Reminiscences of By-Gone Days,” The Surrey Comet, 5 August 1854, p. 1.
- Robinson, Mary. The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II, Ed. William D. Brewer et al., London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010, Vols. 7 & 8.
- “Visit to Miss Porter,” Chambers Journal of Literature, Science, and Art. 4th Ser. 3 January 1874, p. 336.
- [Varley] “Robert Ker Porter,” Somerset House Gazette, 1824, p. 364.
- White, Ina Mary. “The Diary of Jane Porter,” Scottish Review, Vol. XXIX, 1897, 321-37.
- White, Ina Mary “A Page from the Past: Selections from a Diary of Miss Jane Porter,” The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. XIII (1902), 214-27.
- Willis, N. Parker, Famous Persons and Places. Auburn: Alden, Beardsley, & Co., 1854, 471.
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