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Sister novelists : the trailblazing Porter sisters, who paved the way for Austen and the Brontës

text Sister novelists : the trailblazing Porter sisters, who paved the way for Austen and the Brontës

Summary
"Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters--exact contemporar... Read more
Contents
Five fatherless Porter children (1779-90) -- London's Covent Garden and Maria's teenage tales (1790-96) -- Two girls masquerading as society gentlemen : Jane's and Maria's early fictions and the Caulfield brothers (1794-97) -- In spite of the prud... Read more
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xx, 555 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing 2022

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 920 LOO in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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