poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Together with Clarke, she published Clever Tales (1897), a book of translations of European authors like Villiers de L'Isle Adam, Ludovic Halévy, Vsevolod Garshin, Jakub Arbes, and Strindberg. Along with her work on Poet Lore, these efforts are credited with helping to shape American literary taste of the day. Porter was also a poet, publishing in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, The Century Magazine, and Ainslee's Magazine and producing a volume of poems entitled Lips of Music in 1910. She published some of her poems under the pseudonym 'Robert Iphys Everett', and some of her poems were set to music by Clarke, Margaret Ruthven Lang, and Mabel Hill. Porter was a member and longtime vice-president (1903–1936) of the Boston Browning Society. The society sponsored Porter's 1902 stage adaptation of Robert Browning's tragedy Return of the Druses (which was published the following year). Porter was also a member of Julia Ward Howe's Boston Authors Club. Later life Towards the end of her life, Porter lived on the Isle au Haut in Maine in the summers and the remainder of the year in Massachusetts. She died in 1942 in Melrose, Massachusetts. Porter's niece, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, would follow in her footsteps and become a noted translator. Through her niece, Porter is the great-great-aunt of Boris Johnson, former prime minister of the UK. Books As author Lips of Music. New York: Thos. Y. Crowell, 1910 (poems) Return of the Druses. New York: Crowell, 1903 (stage version of Robert Browning's tragedy) Shakespeare Studies: Macbeth. Cincinnati: American Book Company, 1901 (with Clarke) Shakespeare Study Programs: The Tragedies. Boston: RG Badger, 1914 As translator Clever Tales (1897, with Clarke) As editor Browning, Robert. The Complete Works of Robert Browning. New York: Kelmscott Society and Thos. Y. Crowell, 1898 (with Clarke; 12 volumes) Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Works: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. New York: Thos. Y. Crowell, 1900 (with Clarke; 6 volumes) Shakespeare, William. First Folio Edition of Shakespeare. New York: Thos. Y. Crowell, 1903–13 (40 volumes) Notes and references External links 1857 births 1942 deaths Writers from Pennsylvania American magazine founders American magazine editors American translators American women poets Shakespearean scholars 19th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 19th-century American women writers American women non-fiction writers Women magazine editors