Jane Porter and Anna Maria Porter collection, 1808-1850.

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Jane Porter and Anna Maria Porter collection, 1808-1850.

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Consists of letters, documents, engravings, a water color painting, and printed material including obituaries and biographies of the two Porter sisters. Anna Maria Porter's correspondence consists of 24 autograph letters sent to Mrs. Wilhelmina Hole, dated 1809-1830. The letters are bound together in boards, covered in tan paper. There is a letter addressed to "My Dear Madame". Also included is a clipping of her obituary, and a lithograph portrait engraving by G. Harlowe, engraved by T. Woolnoth, and published by Fisher, Son & Co., London, 1846.

.20 linear ft. (1 half-size archival box)

Princeton University Library

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Princeton University Library

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Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871

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Richard Bentley was a London publisher, first with Colburn and Bentley, later with Bentley and Sons. Bentley published many of England's most popular writers, including Dickens, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Marie Corelli, and Mrs. Henry Wood. He also published important English editions of American authors such as Poe and Cooper. From the description of Richard Bentley letter to J. LeSouèˆf, 1833 Nov. 18. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 58802263 ...

Thomson, J., engraver

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Porter, Jane, 1776-1850

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Jane Porter (1776-1850) was a best selling British historical novelist and the author of Thaddeus of Warsaw (1804) and The Scottish chiefs (1810). From the description of Papers of Jane Porter, 1760-1850. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122559985 Francis Legatt Chantrey was a popular and successful sculptor who made portrait busts of many of the most distinguished men of his time, including George IV, Sir Walter Scott, Willi...

Harlowe, G.

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Porter, Anna Maria, 1778-1832

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British author. From the description of Letter : to "Miss Cockle," Newcastle upon Tyne, 1821 Jan. 12. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 29458717 Epithet: novelist, sister of Sir R K Porter British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000114 Anna Maria Porter, like her sister Jane, was a popular English novelist and poet. Precocious and nurtured in her early years, Anna Maria published a ...