Jane Austen

Jane Austen / en The ��Ƶ Porters /node/2146 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2020-12/New%20��Ƶ%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NB.66.3%E2%80%937.jpg.webp?itok=DMNjeoVP" width="655" height="435" alt="��Ƶ Library, Oxford, NB.66.3–7" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The ��Ƶ Porters </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2020): 14</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/290" hreflang="en">Jane Porter</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/291" hreflang="en">Anna Maria Porter</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/292" hreflang="en">Robert Ker Porter</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/293" hreflang="en">William Ogilvie Porter</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/81" hreflang="en">Jane Austen</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/294" hreflang="en">Walter Scott</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>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.  ��Ƶ 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.</h3> <p> </p> <p>��Ƶ Library, Oxford, NB.66.3–7</p> <p> </p> <h5><strong>��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2024-04/14NCN5%20%282020%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20New%20��Ƶ%20Porters.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=925070" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">14NCN5 (2020) Skelton-Foord on ��Ƶ Porters.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">903.39 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 31 Dec 2020 01:36:05 +0000 Christopher 2146 at Jane Austen First Editions: Aves and the Sparrow /node/1646 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2018-06/Ex%20Libris%20of%20Nigel%20Aves%20Watson_0.jpg.webp?itok=91-SEYW1" width="655" height="435" alt="��Ƶ Library, Oxford, BT3.2.1: Ex Libris of Nigel Aves Watson" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Jane Austen First Editions: Aves and the Sparrow </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2018): 09</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/81" hreflang="en">Jane Austen</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/82" hreflang="en">John Hanbury Angus Sparrow</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/83" hreflang="en">Nigel Aves Watson</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/77" hreflang="en">Winchester ��Ƶ</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/104" hreflang="en">20thC history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/145" hreflang="en">Second World War</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>��Ƶ Library holds first editions of four of Jane Austen’s novels. This very good fortune the library owes to two ��Ƶ 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.</h3> <p> </p> <p>��Ƶ Library, Oxford, BT3.2.1</p> <p> </p> <h5><strong>��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2018-12/9NCN9%20%282018%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Jane%20Austen.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=664254" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">9NCN9 (2018) Skelton-Foord on Jane Austen.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">648.69 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:50:36 +0000 Christopher 1646 at