/ en /node/2146 The ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Porters Christopher Skelton-Foord Issue number (2020): 14 Notes category Jane Porter Anna Maria Porter Robert Ker Porter William Ogilvie Porter Jane Austen Walter Scott Library Antiquarian

Jane Porter (1775–1850) and Anna Maria Porter (1778–1832) were well-known novelists, popular during the time when Jane Austen was first being published.  In fact, they penned fiction that was no less widely read than Austen’s was during her lifetime.  ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library holds a hitherto unremarked cache of Porter books—seven books written by two sons and these two daughters of William Porter (1735–1779), an army surgeon of Irish descent, whose five children, all in some way distinguished, were born during the 1770s in the city of Durham.

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NB.66.3–7

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford

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²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library holds first editions of four of Jane Austen’s novels. This very good fortune the library owes to two ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ men, born thirteen years apart: one still very renowned today, especially in Oxford circles; the other did not live long enough ever to be so. Both also have in common remarkable soldierships in the Second World War.

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT3.2.1

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford

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