Jane porter author biography
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Porter, Jane 1964-
PERSONAL:
Born 1964, in Visalia, CA; children: two sons. Education:University of California, Los Angeles, B.A.; University of San Francisco, M.A.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Seattle, WA.
CAREER:
Writer, novelist, and educator. Worked in sales and marketing, as a director of a nonprofit organization, and as a junior and senior high school English teacher.
WRITINGS:
ROMANCE NOVELS
The Italian Groom, Harlequin (New York, NY), 2001.
Christo's Promise, Harlequin (New York, NY), 2001.
The Secret, Harlequin (New York, NY), 2002.
The Sheikh's Wife, Harlequin (New York, NY), 2002.
Lazaro's Revenge, Harlequin (New York, NY), 2003.
In Dante's Debt, Harlequin (New York, NY), 2003.
The Latin Lover's Secret Child, Harlequin (New York, NY), 2003.
The Spaniard's Passion, Harlequin (New York, NY), 2003.
Marco's Pride, Harlequin (New York, NY), 2004.
The Italian's Virgin Princess, Harlequin (New York, NY), 2004.
The Sultan's Bought Bride, Harlequin
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Jane Porter
Goodreads Author
Born
California, The United StatesWebsite
http://www.janeporter.com
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Genre
Romance, Literature & Fiction
Member Since
August 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/jane_porter
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Born in Visalia, California, I'm a small town girl at heart. I love central California's golden foothills, oak trees, and the miles of farmland. In my mind, there's nothing sweeter in the world than the heady fragrance of orange blossoms on a sultry summer night.
As a little girl I spent hours on my bed, staring out the window, dreaming of far off places, fearless knights, and happy-ever-after endings. In my imagination I was never the geeky bookworm with the thick coke-bottle glasses, but a princess, a magical fairy, a Joan-of-Arc crusader.
My parents fed my imagination by taking our family to Europe for a year when I was thirteen. The year away changed me (I wasn't a geek for once!) and overseas I disc
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Jane Porter (1776 – 1850) was born in Durham, the daughter of Jane Blenkinsop (1745 – 1835) and army surgeon William Porter (1735 – 1779) who married in 1770. Her förfäder included royalist Endymion Porter (1587 – 1649); Sir William Porter (d.1436), who fought at Agincourt, and the radical John Tweddell (1766 – 1799). Porter had kvartet siblings: John (1772 – 1810), a Colonel; William (1774 – 1850), a naval surgeon; Robert (1777 – 1842), court painter to Tsar Alexander inom, and Anna Maria (1780 – 1832), a writer who collaborated with Porter on short story collections.
After her father’s death, in 1780, the three youngest children and Porter’s mother, ‘born on the border lands’, moved to Edinburgh. The girls attended George Fulton’s school and, significantly, learnt from oral tradition. Anna Maria’s nurse, Bel Johnston, told tales of the Edinburgh widows whose husbands ‘died in defence of Prince Charles’. Luckie Forbes shared folk histories, describing efternamn ‘as if she had s