This is true, in particular, of women who had to work for their living. Which is why the survival of the letters and journals of Miss Agnes Porter, dating from 1788 to 1814, constitutes an unusually important find.
Here are the Austen influencers, including her first English illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, whose sensational gothic images may be better understood through his brushes with bullying, bigamy, and an attempted matricide.
... Jane Porter . Next to doing things that deserve to be written , nothing gets a man more credit , or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read . - Chester- field . There are three difficulties in author- ship ...
... Jane Porter . Next to doing things that deserve to be written , nothing gets a man more credit , or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read . - Chester- field . There are three difficulties in author- ship ...
... Jane Porter . Thankfulness . C. B. Tayler . Theatrical Apprenticeship of Sol . Smith , Theobald . ( Fr. Ger . ) H ... in Author Land . Em . Chubbuck . Trippings of Tom Pepper . C. F. Briggs . Tristram Shandy . L. Sterne . Triumphs ...
... Jane Porter . Rich . B. Kimball . T. S. Arthur . Charlotte Bronte . F. W. Shelton . ..B . F. Tefft . H. T. Tuckerman ... in Author Land , Two Lives ; or , 74 CATALOGUE OF ROCHESTER ATHENEUM.
In this “deeply stirring” book (The Boston Globe), Julian Barnes writes about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and tearing them apart; and enduring after the ...
Sensitively pitched to a child’s-eye view, this vivid story honors the immigrant experience and the timeless bond between parent and child, past and present.