Jane Austen's Afterlife, West Indian Madams, and the Literary Porter Family: Two New Letters from Charles Austen.

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    • Subject Terms:
      MANSFIELD Park (Book : Austen)
    • Subject Terms:
      AUSTEN, Jane, 1775-1817; AUSTEN, Charles; PORTER, Robert Ker
    • Abstract:
      The article discusses the friendship and collaboration between author Jane Austen and brother Charles Austen of the British Royal Navy. He is cited for contributions to the novel "Mansfield Park" and work in sustaining the literary legacy of his late sister. It takes note of his correspondence with diplomat Robert Ker Porter and his novelist sisters Jane Porter and Anna Maria Porter as well as of their preferences in fiction and allusion to prostitutes as pickles.