If you'd like to learn more about Jane Porter, her sister Anna Maria, and their fascinating lives, check out Devoney Looser's double biography, Sister Novelists SisterNovelists

(SO proud of my young student Tess Riley breaking this story - please share her first published piece - a fun & inspiring story out of NOLA) American Journalism Online NYU Journalism #NewOrleans Sewage and Water Boy: The Unlikely Vigilante of New Orleans untappedcities.com/2023/05/25/sew… via Untapped New York

Historical Writers I'm loving Sister Novelists by Devoney Looser. Contemporaries of Jane Austen, tge lives of the Porter sisters is an insight into the Regency-era arts and literary scene. sisternovelists.com

5 ⭐️ perfection 🤩 for those who love biographies, #regency #history and the lives of women in the era of #JaneAusten Check out this book on Goodreads: Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës goodreads.com/book/show/5589…

I’m so honored and excited to be part of this dynamic project!! So thrilling!

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This #reviewoftheweek analyzes the letters of Jane and Anna Maria Porter, revealing the sisters’ impact on #historicalfiction and Romantic Era #womenwriters in Devoney Looser’s “Sister Novelists” from Bloomsbury U.S.: ow.ly/rj5b50PcYxU #JaneAusten SisterNovelists

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If you need more reasons to read Clare Bucknell’s sublime piece for the The New York Review of Books other than the sheer amazingness of the Porter sisters and why we know so little about them, look no further than this quote on true and false patriotism that is eerily relevant today.