Ellen Pickering [SEP] occupation
Ellen Pickering
Ellen Pickering (1802 – 25 November 1843) was a British novelist who published sixteen three-volume novels, one of them posthumously. At a time when stories about gypsies were common in nineteenth-century Victorian literature, Pickering achieved her greatest success with the novel "Nan Darrell, or The Gypsy Mother" (1839).
Life and work.
Ellen Pickering was born in 1802 and was brought up near Bath, Somerset, in South West England. The Pickering family income was derived from the
Dramatic Lives" (1998) Cassell.
- Cockin, Katharine (ed.) "Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence" (2011) Pickering & Chatto.
- Cockin, Katharine (ed.) "Ellen Terry: Lives of the Shakespearian Actors" (2012) Pickering & Chatto.
- Cockin, Katherine (ed.) "The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry", Vol. 6, London: Pickering & Chatto (2015)
- "Drama: This Week", "The Athenæum