Julia Pardoe

Julia Pardoe

Julia Pardoe (December 4, 1806 - November 26, 1862), was an English poet, novelist, historian and traveller.

She was born at Beverley, Yorkshire, and showed an early interest in literature. She became a prolific and versatile writer, producing in addition to her lively andwell-written novels many books on travel, and others dealing withhistorical subjects. She was a keen observer, and her Oriental travelsgave her an accurate and deep knowledge of the peoples and mannersof the East.

To modern readers she is probably best known for her books on her travels in Turkey, which are some of the earliest works by a woman on this area.In 1836 she travelled to Constantinople with her father, Major Thomas Pardoe. This voyage inspired her book "The City of the Sultan" (1836).Later she collaborated with the artist William Henry Bartlett to produce "The Beauties of the Bosphorus" (1839),an illustrated account of Constantinople.

Bibliography

Works

*"The City of the Sultan" (1836)
*"Romance of the Harem"
*"Thousand and One Days"
*"Louis XIV. and the Court of France"
*"Court of Francis I."
*"Lord Morcar of Hereward" (1829)
*"Speculation" (1834)
*"The Mardens and the Daventrys" (1835)
*"The River and the Desert; or Recollections of the Rhine and the Chartreuse" (1838)
*"The Beauties of the Bosphorus" (1839)
*"The City of the Magyar or Hungary and its Institutions" (1840)
*"The Hungarian Castle" (1842)
*"Confessions of a Pretty Woman" (1846)
*"The Jealous Wife" (1847)
*"The Rival Beauties" (1848)
*"Flies in Amber" (1850)
*"The Life and Memoirs of Marie de Medici, Queen and Regent of France" (1852)
*"Reginald Lyle" (1854)
*"Lady Arabella, or The Adventures of a Doll" (1856)
*"Abroad and at Home: Tales Here and There" (1857)
*"Pilgrimages in Paris" (1857)
*"The Poor Relations" (1858)
*"Episodes of French History during the Consulate and the First Empire" (1859)
*"The Rich Relation" (1862)

Original article from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

External links

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* [http://www.htl-steyr.ac.at/~holz/pardoe/index_pard.html Online version of "The Beauties of the Bosphorus"]


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