Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

by Devoney Looser

Book Overview

For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Bront?s.

Before the Bront? 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163557529X
• ISBN13: 9781635575293
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"