Author: PORTER (Anna Maria), Miss:
Title: Roche-Blanche; Or, The Hunters of the Pyrenees. A Romance.
Description: London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown..., 1822. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 12mo, 191 x 108 mms., pp. [iv - adverts], xi [xii: "The Reader is requested to substitute the name of RICHE-BLANCHE, for ROCHE BLANC, throughout the novel"], 374; [iv], 419 [420 blank]; [iv], 568, including half-titles in volumes 2 and 3, edges uncut, but opened, paper labels on spines; end-papers foxed, bindings a bit soiled, slight chips and wear to labels, but a good set. Anna Maria Porter (1778–1832) along with her sister and Jane Porter (bap. 1776, d. 1850), also a novelist decided an early age to devote their lives to literature and composition. According to the account of Anna's life in ODNB, " Jane said of Anna that 'the quickness of her perceptions gave her an almost intuitive knowledge of everything she wished to learn', while Mrs S. C. Hall described her as blonde, and by nature gay.'" The novel attracted a short and appreciative review in The Monthly Review: "The character of the Baron de Roche Blanche, in the commencement of this work, is so spirited, so natural, and if we may say it, so French, that we should willingly have seen this happy and comical sketch filled up:-- but, in the subsequent pages, our attention is called to nobler personages and graver scenes, and the interest excited is deep and pleasing."

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