![]() Register for the Zoom webinar at the link below, and don't forget to reserve your copy of the book!įor readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës.īefore the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. Erin Templeton, local luminary and Dean at Converse University. Guggenheim Fellow in English Literature Devoney Looser reintroduces the world to the Porter sisters in her new biography, Sister Novelists. Join us on Zoom on Monday, November 7th at 6pm ET to hear from the author, who will be in conversation with Dr. The Porter sisters' legacy was eclipsed by Scott's fame. These two trailblazing writers have been largely forgotten to history: childhood friend Sir Walter Scott was given credit for their literary invention, and never publicly acknowledged the sisters' work as his inspiration. ![]() You probably haven't heard of the Porter sisters, but you should have! Jane and Anna Maria Porter were contemporaries of Jane Austen who wrote 26 novels between them and rose to global fame, socializing among the rich and famous and falling dramatically in and out of love-all the while saving their papers, reasonably expecting that their legacy would live on.Įxcept, it didn't. ![]()
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