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Portland Square, Bristol: March 2d, 1833. The letter mentions the loss of her beloved and only sister, Anna Maria Porter, the year before, as well as her mother in 1831, and that she now has at her disposal a cottage in Claremont in Surrey, as well as a furnished flat..... Read More Item Details for ALS. To the Arch Deacon of Northumberland about Add to Wish List
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"Monday" [n.y.]. "we might go ... to see your great Ancestor," i.e. William Wallace. The Scottish historical novelist Porter (1776-1850) writes to a Miss Wallace, in part: "Mr. Hibbert writes to me – 'I was vexed that I could not do more honour the other evening, to your introduction– a...... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("J Porter"), to "My dear Miss Wallace" Add to Wish List
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New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857. Later Edition. Although Jane Porter claims in her foreword of 1831 that the ‘historical’ romance Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) was her first substantial publication, Fraser's Magazine names her as author of The Spirit of the Elbe (1799), a romance in the German taste. An..... Read More Item Details for Thaddeus of Warsaw. ..With a New Introduction, Notes, etc., by the author Add to Wish List
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Flatbush (N.Y.) & New York: Riley, 1809. Second American edition. Porter’s first acknowledged book which appeared in Boston with "First American Edition" on title-page and Flatbush (Vols. 1 & 2) and then New York (for Vols. 3 & 4) in the same year, 1809. An historical novel loosely based on..... Read More Item Details for Thaddeus of Warsaw. In Four Volumes Add to Wish List
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