Harriet L. Childe-Pemberton

Harriet L. Childe-Pemberton
Born1 April 1852
St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex
Died13 December 1921[1]
Malvern, Worcestershire
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Writer, poet, playwright, novelist

Harriet Louisa Childe-Pemberton (1 April 1852 – 13 December 1921) was an English author of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

Biography

Harriet Louisa Childe-Pemberton was born in 1852, in St Leonards-On-Sea, Sussex, and raised at Millichope Park, Munslow, Shropshire, the daughter of Charles Orlando Childe-Pemberton[2] and Augusta Mary Shakespear Childe-Pemberton. In 1859, her father served as Sheriff of Shropshire. In 1870, she was presented to Queen Victoria.[3] Her younger brother William Shakespear Childe-Pemberton (1859–1924) was also a writer, best known as a biographer.[4][5][6]

Childe-Pemberton lived in London later in life, and wrote plays, poems, short stories, novels, and literary criticism.[7] Her 1882 story "All My Doing; or, Red Riding-Hood Over Again" remains of interest to literary scholars, for its unique retelling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood tale.[8][9][10][11][12][13] Several of her books were published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.[14]

She died in 1921 at Wyche Cottage, in Malvern, Worcestershire.[1]

Selected works

Poetry

  • Love Knows – and Waits, and Other Poems[15]
  • "A Gift" and "The Nightingale's Song", in A Crown of Flowers: poems and pictures collected from the Girl's Own Paper (1883)[16]
  • "Was It an Angel's Song?" in Peterson's Magazine (January 1883)[17]
  • "Bye and Bye" in Peterson's Magazine (March 1884)[18]
  • "The Last Word", in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (April 1885)[19]
  • Nenuphar: The Four-Fold Flower of Life (poems, 1911)[20]
  • In a Tuscan Villa And Other Poems[21]

Plays and dramatic recitations

  • Prince, A Story of the American War (1881)
  • The Tiger Tamed (a libretto, 1885)[22]
  • Dead letters, and other narrative and dramatic pieces (1896)[23]
  • A Backward Child (1899)[24]
  • Nicknames: A Comedietta in One Act (c1900)[25]
  • Twenty Minutes: Drawing Room Duologues (c1900)[26]
  • Original Readings and Recitations

Fiction

  • The Story of Stella Peel (1880)[27]
  • Under the Trees (1881)[28]
  • The Fairy Tales of Every Day (1882),[29][30][31] includes "All My Doing; Or, Red Riding-Hood Over Again"[9][10][11]
  • No Beauty (1884)[14]
  • Birdie: A Tale of Child Life (1888)[32]

References

  1. ^ a b "Deaths". The Times. 15 December 1921. p. 1.
  2. ^ "Millichope Park Records". Shropshire's History. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  3. ^ "The Queen's Drawing Room (continued)". The Morning Post. 11 May 1870. p. 6. Retrieved 14 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Usher, Max (12 January 2017). Never to Return: Brighton College's Fallen 1914–18. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-78442-159-5.
  5. ^ "Wills and Bequests". The Morning Post. 28 June 1897. p. 10. Retrieved 14 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Childe-Pemberton, William Shakespeare (1913). Elizabeth Blount and Henry the Eighth, with some account of her surroundings. By William S. Childe-Pemberton. Robarts - University of Toronto. London : E. Nash.
  7. ^ Thiel, Elizabeth (17 June 2013). The Fantasy of Family: Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal. Routledge. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-135-86116-2.
  8. ^ Jack Zipes (1993). The Trials & Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood. Psychology Press. pp. 48–. ISBN 978-0-415-90835-1.
  9. ^ a b Charles N. Brown; William Contento (1987). Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. Locus Press. ISBN 9780961662943.
  10. ^ a b Murray Knowles; Kirsten Malmkjaer (1 November 2002). Language and Control in Children's Literature. Routledge. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-1-134-88435-3.
  11. ^ a b Rozario, Rebecca-Anne C. Do (6 June 2018). Fashion in the Fairy Tale Tradition: What Cinderella Wore. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-91101-4.
  12. ^ Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence (2009). "Rewriting "Little Red Riding Hood": Victorian Fairy Tales and Mass-Visual Culture". The Lion and the Unicorn. 33 (3). Project MUSE: 259–281. doi:10.1353/uni.0.0467.
  13. ^ McGillis, Roderick. "Lame Old Bachelor, Lonely Old Maid: Harriet Childe-Pemberton's 'All My Doing; or Red Riding Hood Over Again." Aspects and Issues in the History of Children's Literature. Ed. Maria Nikolajeva. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995. 127-38. Print.
  14. ^ a b "Publications of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge". Belfast News-Letter. 16 October 1884. p. 3. Retrieved 15 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L.; Kohler Collection of British Poetry. Love knows--and waits and other poems. London: J. Long.
  16. ^ Peters, C. (1883). A crown of flowers, poems and pictures collected from the 'Girl's Own Paper'. pp. 24, 107.
  17. ^ Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. (January 1883). "Was It an Angel's Song?". Peterson's Magazine. 83: 49 – via ProQuest.
  18. ^ Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. (March 1884). "Bye and Bye". Peterson's Magazine. 85: 255 – via ProQuest.
  19. ^ Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. (April 1885). ""The Last Word"". Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. 19: 479.
  20. ^ Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. (1911). Nenuphar: the four-fold flower of life. London: A.L. Humphreys.
  21. ^ Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. (Harriet Louisa). In a Tuscan villa and other poems. University of California Libraries. London : Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh.
  22. ^ "Untitled society item". The Morning Post. 16 July 1885. p. 5. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  23. ^ Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. (1896). Dead letters, and other narrative and dramatic pieces. London: Ward.
  24. ^ Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L.; Johnson, Burges; Short, Marion; Phelps, Pauline (1906). A backward child. Child and governess farce for 2 females ... New York: E.S. Werner & Company.
  25. ^ Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. Nicknames: a comedietta, in one act. Sergel's acting drama; no. 394. Chicago: Dramatic Pub. Co.
  26. ^ Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. Twenty minutes: drawing-room duologues, etc. London; New York: Samuel French.
  27. ^ Childe-Pemberton, Harriet Louisa (1880). The Story of Stella Peel ... Literary Production Committee.
  28. ^ PEMBERTON, Harriet Louisa Childe (1881). Under the trees. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
  29. ^ Childe-Pemberton, Harriet Louisa (1882). The Fairy Tales of Every Day. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
  30. ^ Jack Zipes (January 1989). Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves. Psychology Press. pp. 209–. ISBN 978-0-415-90140-6.
  31. ^ Laurence Talairach-Vielmas (7 May 2014). Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 113–. ISBN 978-1-137-34240-9.
  32. ^ Pemberton, Harriet Louisa Childe- (1888). Birdie. Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh.


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