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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Summary     Table of Contents       More by this author     Looser, Devoney, 1967-     Subjects     Porter, Anna Maria, 1778-1832.     Porter, Jane, 1776-1850.     Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.     Historical fiction -- Authorship     Authors, English.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Looser, Devoney, 1967-       by title:      Sister novelists : t...         MARC Display

Sister novelists : the trailblazing Porter sisters, who paved the way for Austen and the Brontës / Devoney Looser. by Looser, Devoney, 1967- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. 2022. ISBN:  (ebook) (ebook) 163557529X (hardcover) 9781635575293 (hardcover) 1635575303 9781635575309 Description:  xx, 555 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents:  Prologue: Two sisters of blazing genius -- 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 prudish world : the sister novelists and the great historical picture (1798-1800) -- Cut my heart : Jane and Maria's rival mentors (1798-1801) -- Gone theatrical mad : Maria's plays, Jane's new romance, and the enchanting Kembles (1801) -- "The fire! The splendour!" : Maria's opera, Jane's bestseller, and the war hero, Sir Sidney Smith (1802-3) -- Hearts and darts : Maria's sighing soldier (1803-4) -- How wild is the world : celebrity Jane's suitors and a defense of crim. con. (1804) -- Taking up a rose with the left hand : the Porter women secretly retrench, as Jane is nearly buried alive (1804-5) -- Where the scale turns : Jane's warring passions and Robert's Russian adventures (1805-7) -- Finally in his arms : the return of Maria's sighing soldier (1805-9) -- He must be closed up : the end of Jane's Henry (1807-9) -- Champagne, orange juice, and the Margravine : Maria's year of luxury and love (1809) -- Family misfortunes and Jane's Scottish chiefs (1810) -- Horror princess : Russians in Britain, Maria's Recluse, and Jane's redoubled fame (1811-14) -- Monstrous literary vampires : Jane and Maria, after Walter Scott (1814-16) -- Beware of imagination : Jane's pastor, Maria's two novels, and Colonel Dan (1816-18) -- Played by Kean : Jane's dramas at the Drury Lane Theatre (1817-19) -- Tortured for others : Maria, Jane, and the royal librarian (1819-24) -- Strange, unworthy brother : Jane and Maria publish together and William writes away (1824-31) -- Separating sisters : a pitiless and cold-blooded plan (1831-32) -- Preserve and destroy : Jane's friends and enemies (1832-40) -- Her younger self again : Jane and Robert reunited (1841-42) -- A chair of one's own (1842-50) -- Coda : Three or four closely packed sea chests : the historic, confused, and unsorted Porter correspondence (after 1850). Publisher:  New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Mount Vernon City Library (Non Fiction shelves - Adult Area) 823.6 LOOSER Checked In Request This Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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