![]() ![]() Her brother Sir Robert Ker Porter became a noted painter. Her sister Anna Maria Porter was likewise a novelist. Porter's siblings also achieved some fame. After stints in Durham and Ireland, the Porter family moved to London in the 1790s, where the sisters entered a circle of famous and future-famous actors, artists, and literary women, including Elizabeth Inchbald, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton, Selina Davenport, Elizabeth Benger and Mrs Champion de Crespigny. Her family was acquainted with Sir Walter Scott. ![]() After her father's death, Jane's family moved to Edinburgh, where she studied at a charity school under the schoolmaster George Fulton. Tall and beautiful as she grew up, young Jane Porter's grave air earned her the nickname Il Penseroso, after John Milton's poem. Jane Porter was born in Durham, England, the third of five children of the Irishman William Porter and Jane ( née Blenkinsop) of Durham. ![]() They were abridged and remained popular among children well into the twentieth century. Her bestselling novels, Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) and The Scottish Chiefs (1810) are seen as among the earliest historical novels in a modern style and among the first to become bestsellers. Jane Porter (3 December 1775 – ) was an English historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure. ![]() Jane Porter, from The Ladies' Monthly Museum ![]()
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