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Jane Porter Papers: Finding Aid http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8ns1104 No online items Jane Porter Papers: Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Gayle M. Richardson and Sara "Sue" Hodson, 2001. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2129 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org © 2001 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. Jane Porter Papers: Finding Aid mssPOR 1-2662 1 Overview of the Collection Title: Jane Porter Papers Dates (inclusive): 1760-1850 Collection Number: mssPOR 1-2662 Creator: Porter, Jane, 1776-1850. Extent: 2,662 items in 59 boxes Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2129 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: This collection contains the papers of British historical novelist Jane Porter (1776-1850) and includes family correspondence that describes life amongst the gentry and literary figures during the Regency and early Victorian eras, including social customs and traditional roles of women. Their letters also reflect the family's financial straits and the struggles they endured to maintain their expected (and desired) place in society. Language: English. Access Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services. Publication Rights The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Preferred Citation [Identification of item]. Jane Porter Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Provenance Purchased from Hamill & Barker, February 24, 1976, Sotheby's, "Thule" sale, June 27-28, 1977, H. P. Kraus, May 8 and June 20, 1979, and from Sotheby's, lot 616, March 24, 1981. The specific accessions consist of: • Accession number 281, Henry Edwin Caulfeild Commonplace book, copied by Jane Porter; purchased from Hamill & Barker, February 24, 1976. • Accession number 463, (3) Robert Ker Porter letters (1801); purchased in the Sotheby “Thule” sale, June 27-28, 1977. • Accession number 464, (approx. 3,000 letters in 55 volumes) Anna Maria Porter and Jane Porter letters; purchased in the Sotheby “Thule” sale, June 27-28, 1977. • Accession number 465, (286) Robert Ker Porter letters (1794-1817); purchased in the Sotheby “Thule” sale, June 27-28, 1977. • Accession number 664, (34) Jane Porter letters (1795-1850); purchased from H.P. Kraus, May 8, 1979. • Accession number 665, (83) Robert Ker Porter letters (1812-1842); purchased from H.P. Kraus, June 20, 1979. • Accession number 856, Jane Porter Commonplace book, purchased from Sotheby’s, Lot 616, March 24, 1981. Cataloging Decisions 1. The cataloging of this collection was begun by Sara S. Hodson in 1979 and completed by Gayle M. Barkley in 2001. Consequently, the collection contains both blue and buff colored folders and names rendered in the correct Huntington form for 1979 (blue folders) as well as the standard authorized form currently used (buff folders). However, the names have been rendered consistently in this finding aid according to current standard authorized forms. 2. Many of the letters, when originally acquired, were bound together in multiple volumes. These volumes were disbound in order to catalog the collection but the letters still retain holes and some binding strips from the original binding. The spines from these volumes were retained and placed in Ephemera (Box 53). Jane Porter Papers: Finding Aid mssPOR 1-2662 2 3. Jane Porter’s handwriting (usually in pencil) appears on manuscripts and letters throughout the collection; she went back, later in life, and added many dates and place names. Unfortunately, she would often use the postmark date which was not the date the letter was written; for cataloging purposes the earlier date was used. Many of the letters also have penciled numbers written in the upper right corner by later collators. Because Jane Porter’s handwriting appears throughout the collection, it was decided not to index each instance separately. 4. The following abbreviations were used throughout the folders in the collection to denote subject and added entries, and in cataloging notes. (Note: dates were not always used): AMP, 1780-1832 -- Anna Maria Porter JP, 1776-1850 -- Jane Porter RKP, 1777-1842 -- Robert Ker Porter JP, d. 1831 -- Jane (Blenkinsop) Porter 5. Within the family, Maria Fedorovna Shcherbatova Porter, Robert’s wife, was known as Princess Mary and his daughter, Maria Romanovna Kikina was called “Mashinka.” 6. Robert Ker Porter’s letters from Russia include both the Julian (O.S.) and Georgian (N.S.) dates; for cataloging purposes the Georgian dates were used. 7. Throughout the finding aid and folders the spelling (Caulfeild, not Caulfield) of the name Henry Edwin Caulfeild and other members of the Caulfeild family has been retained. 8. A large number of letters between the Porter family members have multiple authors and addressees. It was decided, for cataloging purposes, these joint authors and addressees would not be given separate added entries on the folders. Also, in the case of multiple authors or addressees only the first author or addressee is given the main entry and the others are noted on the outside of the folders but not in the finding aid. 9. The decision was made, after much thought and discussion, to catalog this collection alphabetically rather than chronologically. But the Porter family often wrote each other daily and it might be necessary to request and read all the family letters rather than just those written by Jane Porter, for instance, as she might be a joint author or addressee in other family letters. 10. References to the various writings of Jane, Anna Maria and Robert Ker Porter are scattered throughout their letters and are too numerous to receive subject entries except for the most major references. 11. Robert Ker Porter is the subject of so many of the family and business letters it was decided not to index all of those entries separately. Biographical Note Jane Porter (1776-1850), a British historical novelist, was born in Durham, England in 1776, the third of five children born to William Porter, an officer in the British Army, and Jane Blenkinsop Porter. After her father’s death in 1779, Jane moved with her family to Edinburgh and began her education. According to all reports, she was very studious from quite a young age and was strongly influenced by the tales of chivalry and the Northern borders which she heard as she was growing up in Scotland. Throughout her life, Jane was especially close to her younger brother Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842), a noted painter, writer, and diplomat, and her younger sister, Anna Maria Porter (1780-1832), also a novelist. Jane Porter was primarily known for her two novels, Thaddeus of Warsaw (1804) and The Scottish Chiefs (1810) both of which went through numerous printings. She also wrote several plays, none of which were successful, and contributed articles and sketches to various publications. She was one of the first female writers in England to become a best-selling author under her own name. Jane Porter died in Bristol on May 24, 1850 in the home of William Ogilvie Porter, her oldest brother. According to the Dictionary of National Biography there was a stone tablet to her memory, as well as those of her brothers and sister, placed in Bristol Cathedral. The Porter family tree: William Porter (1735-1779) m. Jane (Blenkinsop) Porter (1745-1831) (daughter of Peter [or Robert] Blenkinsop) Children • John (1772-1810) • William O. (1774-1850) married twice and had children: Charles Porter, Thaddeus Porter, and William Porter • Jane (1776-1850) • Robert K. (1777-1842) m. Maria F.S. (d. 1826) and had child: Maria R. Kikina (1813-?) • Anna Maria (1780-1832) Bibliography Jane Porter Papers: Finding Aid mssPOR 1-2662 3 Allibone, S. Austin. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature… Vol. 2. (London: Lippincott & Co., 1884) pp. 1645-1646. Dictio nary of Natio nal Bio graphy. Vol. XVI (London: Oxford University Press, 1921-1922), pp. 170, 182-184, 190-192. Ellwood, E.K. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England (London: Henry Colburn, 1843), pp. 276-303. Hall, S.C. A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age (London: Virtue & Co., 1877), pp. 128-132. Scope and Content This collection contains the papers of Jane Porter and includes the family correspondence of Jane Porter, Robert Ker Porter, and Anna Maria Porter spanning the years 1795-1841. This collection has several very strong subject points for the purpose of research. The correspondence between the family members describes life amongst the gentry and literary figures during the Regency and early Victorian eras. Their letters also make clear the financial straits the family faced and the struggles they endured to maintain their expected (and desired) place in society. The correspondence is also strong in the area of social customs and traditional roles of women in the Regency era, though both Jane and Anna Maria stood somewhat outside those roles as they were, with their writing, the main source of financial support for the family for many years. The letters also describe the social and economic changes in England over a span of fifty years. A number of the letters, particularly those of Robert Ker Porter, were written from Russia, Europe, and South America and provide an “Englishman’s view” of the places he visited. The collection does have some areas of weakness. There is a definite lack of manuscript material for Jane, Anna Maria, and Robert Ker Porter; there are no manuscripts of their most well known novels and works.
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