Rose Porter

Rose Porter (December 6, 1845 - September 10, 1906) was an American religious novelist who wrote or edited more than 70 books.[1]

Early years

Porter was born in New York, New York. Her father, David Collins Porter, was a wealthy New Yorker. He died in 1845, while Rose was an infant. Her mother, Rose Anne Hardy, was the daughter of an English army officer. Porter's early years were spent in New York and in the family's summer home in Catskills-on-the-Hudson. She was educated in New York, with the exception of a year abroad. After completing her education, she and her mother made their home in New Haven, Connecticut. After the mother died, Porter kept her home in New Haven, where she lived with her servants.

Career

Porter's first success was Summer Drift-Wood for the Winter Fire. Notwithstanding the fact that she was an invalid for years, Porter was a writer of quiet religious romance, publishing or editing 70 volumes.[2][3] She also wrote or edited prayer books, devotional exercises, and compilations of material for calendars and diaries.[1]

References
  1. Mitchell, Sally. "Porter, Rose". Encyclopedia.com. The Gale Group Inc. Archived from the original on June 9, 2019. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
  2. Willard & Livermore 1897, p. 583.
  3. Faust 1983, p. 159.

Bibliography

Attribution
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: F. E. Willard & M. A. R. Livermore's American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century (1897)
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