Julia Pardoe

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Julia Pardoe, with autograph

Julia Sophia H. Pardoe (̈ December 4, 1804 in Beverley , Yorkshire , † November 26, 1862 in London ) was an English writer and traveler. Her best known work was The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks (1837) in three volumes, dealing with experiences she had made during her stay in Turkey. Some of her writings also appeared in German translation during her lifetime.

Life

Julia Pardoe was born in Beverley as the second daughter of Major Thomas Pardoe (1777 / 78-1849) and his wife Elizabeth (approx. 1782-1860). Her father, allegedly of "Spanish descent", is said to have served on the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars and to have taken part in the Battle of Waterloo . Pardoe began to write at a young age and published her first work, a collection of poems entitled The Nunː a Poetical Romance, and Two Others , dedicated to her uncle William Pardoe in 1823, at that time still anonymously . Her first story, Lord Morcar of Hereward , appeared five years later.

In order to avoid tuberculosis, and because her parents thought her particularly susceptible, she traveled to Portugal in 1826, followed by another stay in 1835. These trips were reflected in a two-volume work on Portugal (1834, 1835), the brought her first literary fame, both in England and - thanks to the translation that appeared in Zwickau - in German-speaking countries. However, some contemporary reviewers were initially not enthusiastic about Pardoe's accounts of Portugal and accused her of reporting " trifles " instead of being interested in "the really important things" ( matters of importance ). This accusation is confirmed insofar as the first news from Pardoe's work that appeared in the German-language press deal with "anecdotes of Portuguese laziness"

She stayed in Constantinople with her father in 1836 and 1837 before returning to England via European Turkey . This stay abroad, which was to have a decisive influence on her, was the reason for her to write several regional and historical writings on Turkey and the Ottoman-Turkish culture. These works cemented her fame as a writer and sold well; they achieved several editions within a short period of time. Later trips took her to Austria, Hungary and France.

Hungary

Pardoe stayed from August 1839 to March 1840 in the area of ​​today's Slovakia and Hungary , especially in Budapest . A newspaper note from December 1, 1839 gives information about how interested the public there was in the presence and person of the English writerː

Miss Julia Pardoe from England, who has been in Pesth [Budapest] for some time with her mother, Lady Pardoe, and who is planning to publish a work on Hungary, had been in western and northern Hungary for a long time before she came to Pesth. She stayed for some time in Pressburg [h. Bratislava ] and attended several sessions of the Reichstag, then visited Neutra [h. Nitra ] and its surroundings, the romantic Waagthal , Trenčín [h. Trenčín ], Schemnitz [h. Banská Štiavnica ] and Kremnitz [h. Kremnica ] etc. She was brought up mostly in Paris and speaks French as fluently as English. She feels an urge of her own to travel and to get to know the world from her own point of view, and is one of the most intelligent and self-exploring travelers. She is attentive to all topographical and ethnographical peculiarities and diligently notes them in her diary. Miss Pardoe not only saw all the curiosities of Constantinople and its surroundings, but had also gained access to the sultan's harem.

Pardoe's experiences in Hungary led to the three-volume presentation The City of the Magyar, or Hungary and Her Institutions (1840, German 1842); the preface to this work is dated October 1840. According to Julia Richers , Pardoe turned out to be "one of the best experts on Hungarian conditions" with her writing; Robert Evans described her as "an enthusiastic and sometimes very well-informed ... observer of society and its current pursuits". Unfortunately, your actual travel report, in the first volume of the City of Magyar , only contains very sparse time and date information, so that we cannot precisely track your travels in Hungary (which at that time included large parts of today's Slovakia and Romania ).

Writer existence in London

After returning to London, she led the life of a freelance writer. But despite her general success, she did not get rich from her book sales, especially since she also had to support her parents. Because of a long illness between November 1843 and October 1844, she was even forced to go into debt, which is why she finally asked the Royal Literary Fund for support; the latter granted her a one-off payment of £ 50 in November. It was not until 1860 that she received a state pension (£ 100) awarded for her contributions to English literature.

Between 1842 and 1862 she wrote numerous historical and narrative works that dealt in particular with the history of France between the 16th and 19th centuries. She also wrote other novels and travelogues. She also worked as a translator from Spanish and Italian. Her particularly popular books, which were published in the 20th century, included The Confessions of a Pretty Woman (1846) and The Rival Beauties (1848). The translation of one of her early works into German (see above) meant that her name was well known in German-speaking countries even before the beginning of the 1840s; in a newspaper note from November 1839 she appears as "[t] he famous English writer". In 1840 it was the German edition, Der Roman des Harems , which made its name known again. A reviewer praised "Miss Pardoe" as "one of the most recognized witty women in England". He also did not fail to point out that Pardoe's book “received, as is well known, the approval of the Turkish ambassador in London Reschid Pasha in a high degree”.

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Pardoe never married - which is why she almost always appears without her first name on the title pages of her publications as "Miss Pardoe" - although she was closely related to Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872). In later years she was ridiculed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning , for example, for her vanity and efforts to maintain a youthful appearance .

On November 26, 1862, Pardoe, who had been ill for many years and suffered from insomnia, died in London of chronic inflammation of the liver. She was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery , London.

reception

  • Regarding Pardoes City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836 (1837) the Ottoman and Orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall judged as follows, which was also taken up in the following in the Austrian press and quoted more or less verbatimː

In M [iß] P [ardoe] a new Montague has risen in our century who, endowed with equal talents of style, has the advantage over her famous compatriot, not one harem, but half a dozen of all classes of higher society from that of the sultan's sister, that of von Paschen and up to that of an Effendi, having seen them with perfect ease and leisure, and having spent days and nights in it with the cadunes and odaliks [in], so far as a woman with women without understanding their language, and speaking only through interpreters, can boast of having lived with them. The painting of the inner life of the hareme is the solitaire of the brilliant belt of this painting "the city of the Sultan and the domestic customs of the Turks" ... MP is such a richly endowed genius that it is by no means necessary to entertain the reader in a travelogue describing the truth and to mix poetry with one another, and to demolish both at mutual expense.

  • “Literary Note from England Two Recent English Novels” (1847) ː

“The confessions of a pretty woman”, by Miss Pardoe - what an inspiring title! Who doesn't think of grace and fashion and luscious idleness, of blondes and atlas and diamonds, obscured by them who want to adorn them, of coquetry and courage and light jokes, of hints and signs and half-words, of calm, perhaps also disturbing ones Scandal? And what does the book bring? Neither adventure nor intrigue. It is not a so-called character novel, no description of deep, all-coping passion, contains little or nothing sentimental, does not take fashionable life to the stage, does not make common mushrooms ridiculous, does not care about politics, leaves the scandal of the beautiful world untouched, is a three-volume novel without a single divorce. All of these negatives establish his peculiarity, and while this would mark him as a peculiarity, the author's name guarantees that he is worth reading. Miss Pardoe hasn't written anything that wouldn't be.

Works

Works in German translation

  • Sketches and legends from Portugal . The English Miss Julia Pardoe retells. 2 volumes. Zwickauː Schumann 1835
  • The novel of the harem. A cycle of oriental stories. From the English by Miss Pardoe by W. Alexis and J. Neumark . 3 parts. Berlinː Liebmann & Co. 1840 (but delivered in 1839)
  • "The young Greek girl". Inː The control room on the Danube. Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für Verstand und Gemüth, for instruction, amusement and dissemination of non-profit knowledge , 22nd year, no. 73 (Linz, May 6, 1840), p. 2 f. (not paginated in the original)
  • "The Ludovicia and the National Museum at Pesth, according to Miss Pardoe". Inː Blätter für literary entertainment , No. 45 (February 14, 1841), p. 184
  • "Miss Pardoe and Tobacco Smoking". Inː Der Humorist , 6th vol., No. 34 (February 17, 1842), p. 140; Der Siebenbürger Bote , vol. 57, No. 24 (March 25, 1842), p. 240
  • Hungary and its inhabitants and institutions in 1839 and 1840. German by L. v. Alvensleben . 2 parts. Leipzigː Philipp Reclam jun. 1842
  • "The ancestral castle of the Wyndhams. Novella, loosely based on the English of Miss Pardoe". Inː The Humorist , No. 104 (April 30, 1844) - No. 112 (May 9, 1844)
  • Views of Bosphorus and Constantinople. With pictures drawn from nature by WH Bartlett, Esq. Londonː G. Virtue - Hamburgː BS Berendsohn 1853

Travel information and literature about the country

  • Traits and Traditions of Portugal. Collected During a Residence in that Country . 2 volumes. Londonː Saunders & Otley 1833. American editionː Philadelphiaː Carey, Lea & Blanchard 1834
  • City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836 . 2 volumes. Londonː Henry Colburn 1837. Second edition in 3 volumes, Londonː H. Colburn 1837–1838
  • The Beauties of the Bosphorus; Illustrated in a Series of Views of Constantinople and Its Environs, from Original Drawings by WH Bartlett . Londonː George Virtue 1838
  • The River and the Desartː Or, Recollections of the Rhône and the Chartreuse . 2 volumes. Londonː Henry Colburn 1838
  • The City of the Magyar, or Hungary and her Institutions in 1839-1840 . 3 volumes. Londonː George Virtue 1840
  • Abroad and at Home: Tales Here and There . Londonː Lambert & Co. 1857
  • Pilgrimages in Paris . Londonː William Lay 1857

Fiction

  • The Nun: a Poetical Romance, and Two Others . Londonː Longman 1824 (1823)
  • Speculation. A novel . 3 volumes. Londonː Saunders & Otley 1834. Third, American editionː New Yorkː Harper & Brothers 1847
  • The Romance of the Harem . 3 volumes. Londonː Henry Colburn 1839. American editionː Philadelphiaː EL Carey & A. Hart 1839
  • The Hungarian Castle . 3 volumes. Londonː T. & W. Boone 1842
  • The Confessions of a Pretty Woman . American editionː New Yorkː Harper & Brothers 1846
  • The Jealous Wife. 3 volumes. Londonː Hurst & Blackett 1847. New edition 1855
  • The Rival Beauties. A novel . 3 volumes. Londonː Richard Bentley 1848
  • Files in Amber . 3 volumes. Londonː William Shoberl 1850
  • Reginald Lyle . 3 volumes. Londonː Hurst & Blackett 1854
  • The Wife's Trials: A novel . Bostonː Fetridge & Co. 1855
  • Lady Arabellaː or The Adventures of a Doll. Illustrated by George Cruikshank . Londonː Kerby & Son 1856
  • The poor relation. A novel . 3 volumes. Londonː Hurst & Blackett 1858
  • A life struggle . 2 volumes. Londonː L. Booth 1859. American edition in 1 volumeː New Yorkː WI Pooley & Company 1860
  • The rich relation . Londonː Charles H. Clarke 1862
  • The Adopted Heir. Complete and Unabridged . Philadelphiaː TB Peterson & Brothers 186?
  • Miss Pardoe's Complete Works. Comprising The Confessions of a Pretty Woman, The Jealous Wife, The Rival Beauties, The Wife's Trials, The Romance of the Harem. Complete in One Volume . Philadelphiaː TB Peterson & Brothers nd (ca.1848?)

Historical studies and novels

  • Lord Morcar of Hereward. A Romance of the Times of William the Conqueror . 4 volumes. Londonː AK Newman 1829
  • The Mardens, and the Daventrys. Tales . 3 volumes. Londonː Saunders & Otley 1835
  • Louis the Fourteenth, and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century . 3 volumes. Londonː Richard Bentley 1847. American edition in 2 volumesː New Yorkː Harper & Brothers 1847
  • The Court and Reign of Francis the First, King of France . 2 volumes. American editionː Philadelphiaː Lea & Blanchard 1849
  • The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII . 3 volumes. Londonː Colburn & Co. 1852. American edition in 3 volumesː New Yorkː James Pott & Company 1902
  • Episodes of French History, during the Consulate and the First Empire . 2 volumes. Londonː Hurst & Blackett 1859. American editionː New Yorkː Harper & Brothers 1859

various

  • The Fairy-Gathering, Written and Inscribed to M rs . John Harman, by Miss Pardoe. The Music Composed by David Lee . Music sheet, Londonː GS Tregear (ca.1840)
  • Memoirs of the Queens of Spain: From the Period of the Conquest of the Goths to the Accession of her Present Majesty Isabella II, with the Remarkable Events that Occurred during their Respective Reigns, and Anecdotes of their Several Courts. By Anita George. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Miss Julia Pardoe . 2 volumes. Londonː Richard Bentley 1850
  • The Thousand and One Days; a companion to the "Arabian Nights". With Introduction by Miss Pardoe . Londonː William Lay 1857. American edition udT The Enchanted Keys, and Other Tales. A Companion to the Arabian Nights, with an Introduction by Miss Pardoe . New Yorkː Allen Brothers 1867

literature

  • Elizabeth Leeː " Julia Pardoe ". Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), 1885-1900 , Volume 43.
  • John Sutherlandː The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Second edition . London - New Yorkː Routledge 2009, p. 495
  • Gülbahar Rabia Altuntaşː 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "List of New Publications in November ː Poetry" . In: The Monthly Magazine . No. 389 , December 1, 1823, p. 460 .
  2. ↑ Review of Traits and Traditions of Portugal by Miss Pardoe . In: The Gentleman's Magazine . November 1833, p. 432-435, here p. 435 .
  3. ↑ Colorful things from that time . In: Adolf Bäuerle (ed.): General theater newspaper and original newspaper for art, literature, music, fashion and social life . No. 4 . Vienna January 7, 1834, p. 16 .
  4. ↑ (Report from Pesth) . In: United Ofner Pest Newspaper . No. 96 , December 1, 1839, p. 1049 f .
  5. ↑ (Correspondence from Pest) . In: Königlich-Freistadtische Pressburger-Zeitung . No. 98 , December 6, 1839, p. 950 .
  6. ↑ Julia Richers: Jewish Budapest. Cultural topographies of a municipality in the 19th century (=  life worlds of Eastern European Jews 12 ). Böhlau, Cologne 2009, p. 67 note 52 .
  7. ^ Robert Evans: "Hungary in British Historiography" . In: Márta Fata (ed.): The Hungarian image of German historiography (=  idgl - series of publications by the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies ). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, p. 110–125, here p. 111 .
  8. ↑ Latest theatrical, art, and scientific ads . In: The eagle . No. 270 , November 12, 1839, pp. 1036 .
  9. ↑ a b advertisement ː The novel of the harem . In: Literarischer Anzeiger . No. XXXIII . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1839, p. 126 .
  10. ↑ John Sutherland: The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Second edition . Routledge, London - New York 2009, pp. 495 .
  11. ↑ Joseph von Hammer Purgstall: "Travel in Turkey" . In: Yearbooks of Literature . tape 87 . Vienna 1839, p. 56 f .
  12. ↑ (note on Miss Pardoe) . In: The eagle . No. 13 , January 15, 1840, p. 100 .
  13. ↑ Note sheet . In: Viennese magazine for art, literature, theater and fashion . No. 2 , January 4, 1840, p. 15 .
  14. ^ "Literary note from England" . In: Sheets for literary entertainment . No. 63 , March 4, 1847, p. 252 .
personal data
SURNAME Pardoe, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pardoe, Julia Sophia H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer and traveler
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Beverley , Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1862
Place of death London