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Jane Porter

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Profession
Novelist
Died
May 24, 1850
Zodiac
Capricorn
Born in
DurhamEngland
About
An early 19th-century English-born Scottish author, she became known for historical prose pieces such as Tales Round a Winter Hearth (1821) and Coming Out (1828). One of her most successful works was The Scottish Chiefs, an 1810 historical novel about William Wallace.
Family
She was born in Durham, England and, following her father's death, moved to Edinburgh, Scotland. Her noteworthy romantic life was supposedly documented in the romance novel, Sir Edward Seaward's Diary.

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