Charlotte Endymion Porter

American editor

Also known as: Helen Charlotte Porter

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Charlotte Endymion Porter was an American editor, writer, and literary critic. She is best known for co-founding and co-editing the literary magazine Poet Lore with Helen Archibald Clarke. This publication, launched in 1889, focused on William Shakespeare and Robert Browning, and also introduced American audiences to European writers like Henrik Ibsen and Maxim Gorky.1

Porter also edited significant collections of Shakespeare's and Browning's works, including a 12-volume complete edition of Browning's works and a 40-volume First Folio Edition of Shakespeare. Her work, alongside Clarke's, significantly influenced literary tastes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.1

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Helen Archibald Clarke and Charlotte Endymion Porter
Helen Charlotte Porter, who later dropped her first name and adopted the middle name Endymion, graduated from Wells College, Aurora, New York, in 1875, studied for a time at the Sorbonne in Paris, and in 1883 became editor of Shakespeariana, a journal published in Philadelphia…
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Helen Charlotte Porter, who later dropped her first name and adopted the middle name Endymion, graduated from Wells College, Aurora, New York, in 1875, studied for a time at the Sorbonne in Paris, and in 1883 became editor of Shakespeariana, a journal published in Philadelphia…
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