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Julia Pardoe (4 December 1804 – 26 November 1862) was an English poet, novelist, historian and travel writer. Her most popular work, The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks (1837), presented the Ottoman Turkish upper class with sympathy and humanity.

Life

thumb|Julia Pardoe book frontispiece with her signature at the bottom.Julia Sophia H. Pardoe was born in Beverley, Yorkshire. She was the second daughter born to Major Thomas Pardoe, who was said to be of Spanish extraction, and his wife Elizabeth. Her father served in the Royal Waggon Train in the Peninsular campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars and fought at Waterloo before retiring from the service. She began writing at an early age She was inspired by her travels with her father to publish The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1837. The magazine also noted the usefulness of Pardoe's The Hungarian Castle (1842), which consists of three volumes of Hungarian folklore, "filling up a very little known page in the legendary history of Europe".

Joseph Johnson included Pardoe in his Clever Girls of Our Time: And How They Became Famous Women (1862). His piece on her begins, "With few exceptions, Famous Women have all been Clever Girls. From their infantine years they have been celebrated for a love of books: for the perseverance which marked their pursuit of knowledge: for intense industry in their studies, and the eagerness with which they followed that which had become the end and aim of existence."

Bibliography

  • The Nun: a Poetical Romance, and Two Others (1824)
  • 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 City of the Sultan (1836)
  • The River and the Desert; or Recollections of the Rhine and the Chartreuse (1838)
  • The Beauties of the Bosphorus (1839)
  • Romance of the Harem (1839)
  • Beauty and Time – a Poem – in the Blackburn Standard 10th April 1839 (1839)
  • The City of the Magyar or Hungary and its Institutions (1840)
  • The Hungarian Castle (1842)
  • Death – a Poem – in The Leicester Chronicle 2nd Sept 1843 (1843)
  • Psyche, Love and the Butterfly – a Poem – in the Leicester Chronicle 7th Sept 1844 (1844)
  • Confessions of a Pretty Woman (1846)
  • The Jealous Wife (1847)
  • and the Court of France in the Century (1847)
  • The Rival Beauties (1848)
  • Court and Reign of , King of France (1849)
  • Flies in Amber (1850)
  • The Life of , Queen of France, Consort of , and Regent of the Kingdom Under Louis XIII (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)
  • Thousand and One Days (1857)
  • The Poor Relations (1858)
  • Episodes of French History during the Consulate and the First Empire (1859)
  • The Rich Relation (1862)

References

Literature

Gülbahar Rabia Altuntașː The Material Culture in the Istanbul Houses Through the Eyes of British Traveler Julia Pardoe (d. 1862). Master of Arts Thesis, Institute of Social Sciences, Sabancı University 2017 (pdf)

  • Works by or about Julia Pardoe at HathiTrust
  • Works by or about Julia Pardoe at Google Books
  • Online version of The Beauties of the Bosphorus
  • Golden Gale (most of her fiction)