Julia Pardoe

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The most common topics of Julia Pardoe 's writings were: Turkey, Hungary, French royalty, and fiction featuring women and marriage. Her prolific output in the early and middle years of Victoria's reign includes: three historical biographies; five travel books; about a dozen novels; at least three short story collections; at least two books of poetry; an introduction; a dramatic adaptation; a translation; and numerous periodical articles.

Milestones

4 December 1804

JP was baptised at the Church of St John and St Martin in Beverley, Yorkshire; she was presumably born not long before this.
Many sources erroneously give 1806 as the year of her birth.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 295
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 295

1824

JP started young, making her first appearance in print with an anonymous volume of poetry, The Nun, a Poetical Romance, and Two Others, dedicated to her uncle William Pardoe , which was written in her early teens.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Pardoe, Julia. “The Nun, 1824”. Corvey/html: Etexts: Julia Pardoe.

1838

The Beauties of the Bosphorus: Illustrated in a series of Views of Constantinople and its Environs is the second of the two travel books which JP based on her travels and research in Turkey.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 294
Pardoe, Julia, and William Henry Bartlett. The Beauties of the Bosphorus. Virtue and Co.
prelims

1859

JP 's final novel, and also her final publication, was A Life-Struggle, which appeared this year..
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

26 November 1862

JP died at poor lodgings in Upper Montagu Street in London of slowly encroaching disease of the liver.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 298
Unsigned, and Julia Pardoe. “Memoir of the Author”. The Court and Reign of Francis the First, King of France, R. Bentley and Son, p. xiii - xvi.
xvi
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

4 December 1804

JP was baptised at the Church of St John and St Martin in Beverley, Yorkshire; she was presumably born not long before this.
Many sources erroneously give 1806 as the year of her birth.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 295
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 295