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    1. The Social Memory of Jane Porter and her Scottish Chiefs 2012

      Morton, Graeme

      Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 91, Issue 2, pp. 311 - 335.

      Formed within the interplay of history, culture and cognition, the concept of social memory is introduced to evaluate a key element of Scotland's nineteenth-century national tale. Being never more ... Read more

      Formed within the interplay of history, culture and cognition, the concept of social memory is introduced to evaluate a key element of Scotland's nineteenth-century national tale. Being never more than partially captured by state and monarchy, and only imperfectly carried by institutions and groups, the national tale has comprised a number of narratives. Within the post-Union fluidity of Scotland's place within Britain, and at a time of European conflict, this tale coalesced around social memories of the mediaeval patriot William Wallace. Distinctive to that process was the historical romance The Scottish Chiefs (1810), as it was merged with the public life of its author, Jane Porter (bap. 1776-1850). By situating this fictional account of the life of Wallace within the social memories of its author, and in society more widely, attention is directed towards a set of stories formed in Porter's own cognition. These living memories were forged in her childhood experiences of a new life in Scotland; her claim to have pioneered the historical novel, confirmed by her friend Walter Scott; her personal, familial, and fictional projections of her public self; and in how contemporaries returned to her, and made known to society, their reception of her personality, her deportment, and her fiction. It was in combination that a leading social memory of the nation's tale was formed out of living memory that could not have transcended time and place. Read less

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    2. THE GREAT MAN AND WOMEN'S HISTORICAL FICTION: JANE PORTER AND SIR SIDNEY SMITH 2012

      Looser, Devoney

      Women's Writing : The Elizabethan To Victorian Period, Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 293 - 314.

      This essay investigates the ways in which Jane Porter (bap. 1776-1850) drew on the life and writings of war hero Sir Sidney Smith in her innovative historical novel Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803). In th... Read more

      This essay investigates the ways in which Jane Porter (bap. 1776-1850) drew on the life and writings of war hero Sir Sidney Smith in her innovative historical novel Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803). In the first part of this essay, the author examines the rhetoric of military heroism employed in Porter's Thaddeus, demonstrating her developing notions of Smith's importance as a model for the era's "Great Man". The author shows that Porter's high regard for Smith's military and personal merits was not based merely on knowledge gleaned from the popular press, but on her personal acquaintance with Smith and his family. The Porters' connection to Smith did not end in 1803, as the author describes in the second part of the essay, documenting through unpublished letters Porter's lifelong and apparently unrequited love for Smith. The author argues that Smith heavily influenced the ways in which Porter conceived of the interrelations of domestic and military registers in her groundbreaking historical fiction, shaping her understandings of men, women, authorship and heroism in wartime. Read less

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    3. The Scottish National Tale 2011

      Andrew Monnickendam

      The Edinburgh Companion To Scottish Romanticism, p. 100.

      This chapter begins with a discussion of the term ‘National Tale’, before going on to examine its literary origins. It then proceeds to examine the work of five prominent practitioners: Elizabeth H... Read more

      This chapter begins with a discussion of the term ‘National Tale’, before going on to examine its literary origins. It then proceeds to examine the work of five prominent practitioners: Elizabeth Hamilton (1756?-1816), Jane Porter (1776–1850), Mary Brunton (1775–1818), Susan Ferrier (1782–1854) and Christian Isobel Johnstone (1782–1854). Although it will deal with the authors individually, four common topics will be highlighted: landscape, language, romance and Ireland. Traditionally, the national tale is seen with Scott at its core, whereas these five writers occupy the periphery. All five are aware of this hierarchical difference, but it would be Read less

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    1. Thaddeus of Warsaw : a novel

      Jane Porter ; edited by Thomas McLean and Ruth Knezevich.

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    2. The Scottish chiefs : a romance

      by Jane Porter.

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    3. The Scottish chiefs : a romance

      by Jane Porter.

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