Julia Pardoe

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

Julia Pardoe

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Julia Pardoe book frontispiece with her signature at the bottom.

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 and well-written novels many books on travel, and others dealing with historical subjects. She was a keen observer, and her travel to the East gave her an accurate and deep knowledge of the peoples and manners of 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)
• Traits and Traditions of Portugal. Collected during a residence in that country (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)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Wikisource 

External links

• Works by Julia Pardoe at Project Gutenberg
• Online version of The Beauties of the Bosphorus