{"product_id":"sister-novelists-the-trailblazing-porter-sisters-who-paved-the-way-for-austen-and-the-brontes-hardcover","title":"Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDevoney Looser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fires \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Peabody Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Before 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. The Porters-exact contemporaries of Jane Austen-were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published 26 books and achieved global fame. They socialized among the rich and famous, tried to hide their family's considerable debt, and fell dramatically in and out of love. Their moving letters to each other confess every detail. Because the celebrity sisters expected their renown to live on, they preserved their papers, and the secrets they contained, for any biographers to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But history hasn't been kind to the Porters. Credit for their literary invention was given to their childhood friend, Sir Walter Scott, who never publicly acknowledged the sisters' works as his inspiration. With Scott's more prolific publication and even greater fame, the Porter sisters gradually fell from the pinnacle of celebrity to eventual obscurity. Now, Professor Devoney Looser, a Guggenheim fellow in English Literature, sets out to re-introduce the world to the authors who cleared the way for Austen, Mary Shelley, and the Brontë sisters. Capturing the Porter sisters' incredible rise, from when Anna Maria published her first book at age 14 in 1793, through to Jane's fall from the pinnacle of fame in the Victorian era, and then to the auctioning off for a pittance of the family's massive archive, \u003ci\u003eSister Novelists\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking and enthralling biography of two pioneering geniuses in historical fiction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevoney Looser is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author or editor of nine books on literature by women, including \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Jane Austen\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in The \u003ci\u003eAtlantic, The New York Times, Salon, The Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, and she's had the pleasure of talking about Austen on CNN. Looser, who has played roller derby as Stone Cold Jane Austen, is a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.06 x 9.48 x 6.39 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768133746976,"sku":"9781635575293","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/26d0018a7b15f164be466a13985872c1.webp?v=1780325511","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sister-novelists-the-trailblazing-porter-sisters-who-paved-the-way-for-austen-and-the-brontes-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}