Julia Pardoe
Overview
English poetry
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
, novelist, historian and traveller.
She was born at Beverley
Beverley
Beverley is a market town, civil parish and the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, located between the River Hull and the Westwood. The town is noted for Beverley Minster and architecturally-significant religious buildings along New Walk and other areas, as well as the Beverley...
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
, and showed an early interest in literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
. She became a prolific and versatile writer, producing in addition to her lively and
well-written novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
s 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
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
, which are some of the earliest works by a woman on this area.
