Rose Porter

'''Rose Porter''' (December 6, 1845 – September 10, 1906) was an American religious novelist who wrote or edited more than 70 books.<ref name="e">{{cite web |last1=Mitchell |first1=Sally |title=Porter, Rose |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/porter-rose |website=Encyclopedia.com |publisher=The Gale Group Inc. |access-date=June 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190609200027/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/porter-rose |archive-date=June 9, 2019}}</ref>

== Biography == Porter was born in New York, New York, December 6, 1845.<ref name="TheALI-1906">{{cite book |title=The Annual Library Index |date=1906 |publisher=Office of the Publishers' Weekly |page=361 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BcssAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA361 |access-date=23 October 2022 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> 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.

Porter's first success was ''Summer Drift-Wood for the Winter Fire'' (1870). Notwithstanding the fact that she was an invalid for years, Porter was a writer of quiet religious romance, publishing or editing 70 volumes.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1897|p=583}}{{sfn|Faust|1983|p=159}} She also wrote or edited prayer books, devotional exercises, and compilations of material for calendars and diaries.<ref name="e" />

Rose Porter died in New Haven, Connecticut, September 10, 1906.<ref name="TheALI-1906" />

==Selected works== * ''Summer Drift-Wood for the Winter Fire'' (1870) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=z1tgAAAAcAAJ text]) * ''Foundations: Or, Castles in the Air'' (1871) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=sB6uGXUFns8C text]) * ''The Winter Fire: A Sequel to "Summer Drift-wood".'' (1874) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=JwRAAAAAYAAJ text]) * ''The Years that are Told'' (1875) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=litVAAAAYAAJ text]) * ''A Song and a Sigh'' (1877) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=toA7AQAAMAAJ text]) * ''In the Mist'' (1879) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=o9sCAAAAQAAJ text]) * ''Charity, Sweet Charity'' (1880) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=-pTUAAAAMAAJ text]) * ''The Years that are Told'' (1881) * ''Resting in His Love: (series * of "Rest a While.")'' (1890) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=zNRUAAAAYAAJ text]) * ''Gain by Loss, Or, The Garment of Praise'' (1891) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=4Z0KKB0QXrEC text]) * ''Saint Martin's Summer: Or, The Romance of the Cliff'' (1891) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=kyIQ56jcU7MC text]) * ''Thoughts for Men: From American Statesmen''(1893) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=vd5IAQAAMAAJ text]) * ''My Son's Wife'' (1895) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=AQ8eAAAAMAAJ text]) * ''One of the Sweet Old Chapters: A Fragment'' (1896) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=MypVAAAAYAAJ text]) * ''A Daughter of Israel'' (1899) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=sMg4AQAAMAAJ text]) * ''In quietness and in confidence; Open window; Resting in His love; Looking toward sunrise; A year of blessings and blessed year'' (1907)

==References== {{Reflist}}

===Bibliography=== *{{cite book|last=Faust|first=Langdon Lynne|title=American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N8dXAAAAYAAJ|date=1 January 1983|publisher=Ungar|isbn=978-0-8044-6165-8}} *{{cite book|last1=Willard|first1=Frances Elizabeth|last2=Livermore|first2=Mary Ashton Rice|title=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|url=https://archive.org/details/americanwomenfif02live|page=[https://archive.org/details/americanwomenfif02live/page/583 583]|year=1897|publisher=Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick}}

===Attribution=== *{{Source-attribution|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)}}

==External links== * {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Rose Porter}} * {{Librivox author |id=12551}}

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