Anna Maria Porter

Born in 1778, Anna Maria Porter was an English poet and novelist who built a remarkably early literary career. She was the younger sister of fellow writer Jane Porter and the artist Sir Robert Ker Porter, and she began publishing while still very young.

Porter wrote a large number of novels, tales, and poems during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Works such as The Hungarian Brothers helped make her known to contemporary readers, and her fiction was noted for combining romance, action, and historical settings in a way that appealed strongly to her time.

She died in 1832. Although she is less widely read now than some later novelists, she remains an important figure in the development of popular historical fiction and in the story of women writing professionally in the Romantic period.