Harriet L. Childe-Pemberton

Harriet Louisa Childe-Pemberton (1 April 1852 – 1922) was an English author of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

Harriet L. Childe-Pemberton
Born1 April 1852
St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex
Died1922
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Writer, poet, playwright, novelist

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[1] and Augusta Mary Shakespear Childe-Pemberton. In 1859, her father served as Sheriff of Shropshire. In 1870, she was presented to Queen Victoria.[2] Her younger brother William Shakespear Childe-Pemberton (1859–1924) was also a writer, best known as a biographer.[3][4][5]

Childe-Pemberton lived in London later in life, and wrote plays, poems, short stories, novels, and literary criticism.[6] 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.[7][8][9][10][11][12] Several of her books were published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.[13] She died in 1922.

Selected works

Poetry

  • Love Knows – and Waits, and Other Poems[14]
  • "A Gift" and "The Nightingale's Song", in A Crown of Flowers: poems and pictures collected from the Girl's Own Paper (1883)[15]
  • "Was It an Angel's Song?" in Peterson's Magazine (January 1883)[16]
  • "Bye and Bye" in Peterson's Magazine (March 1884)[17]
  • "The Last Word", in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (April 1885)[18]
  • Nenuphar: The Four-Fold Flower of Life (poems, 1911)[19]
  • In a Tuscan Villa And Other Poems[20]

Plays and dramatic recitations

  • Prince, A Story of the American War (1881)
  • The Tiger Tamed (a libretto, 1885)[21]
  • Dead letters, and other narrative and dramatic pieces (1896)[22]
  • A Backward Child (1899)[23]
  • Nicknames: A Comedietta in One Act (c1900)[24]
  • Twenty Minutes: Drawing Room Duologues (c1900)[25]
  • Original Readings and Recitations

Fiction

  • The Story of Stella Peel (1880)[26]
  • Under the Trees (1881)[27]
  • The Fairy Tales of Every Day (1882),[28][29][30] includes "All My Doing; Or, Red Riding-Hood Over Again"[8][9][10]
  • No Beauty (1884)[13]
  • Birdie: A Tale of Child Life (1888)[31]

References

  1. "Millichope Park Records". Shropshire's History. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  2. "The Queen's Drawing Room (continued)". The Morning Post. 11 May 1870. p. 6. Retrieved 14 March 2020 via Newspapers.com.
  3. Usher, Max (12 January 2017). Never to Return: Brighton College's Fallen 1914–18. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-78442-159-5.
  4. "Wills and Bequests". The Morning Post. 28 June 1897. p. 10. Retrieved 14 March 2020 via Newspapers.com.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Jack Zipes (1993). The Trials & Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood. Psychology Press. pp. 48–. ISBN 978-0-415-90835-1.
  8. Charles N. Brown; William Contento (1987). Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. Locus Press. ISBN 9780961662943.
  9. Murray Knowles; Kirsten Malmkjaer (1 November 2002). Language and Control in Children's Literature. Routledge. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-1-134-88435-3.
  10. Rozario, Rebecca-Anne C. Do (6 June 2018). Fashion in the Fairy Tale Tradition: What Cinderella Wore. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-91101-4.
  11. 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. pp. 259–281.
  12. 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.
  13. "Publications of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge". Belfast News-Letter. 16 October 1884. p. 3. Retrieved 15 March 2020 via Newspapers.com.
  14. Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L.; Kohler Collection of British Poetry. Love knows--and waits and other poems. London: J. Long.
  15. Peters, C. (1883). A crown of flowers, poems and pictures collected from the 'Girl's Own Paper'. pp. 24, 107.
  16. Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. (January 1883). "Was It an Angel's Song?". Peterson's Magazine. 83: 49 via ProQuest.
  17. Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. (March 1884). "Bye and Bye". Peterson's Magazine. 85: 255 via ProQuest.
  18. Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. (April 1885). ""The Last Word"". Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. 19: 479.
  19. Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. (1911). Nenuphar: the four-fold flower of life. London: A.L. Humphreys.
  20. Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. (Harriet Louisa). In a Tuscan villa and other poems. University of California Libraries. London : Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh.
  21. "Untitled society item". The Morning Post. 16 July 1885. p. 5. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  22. Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. (1896). Dead letters, and other narrative and dramatic pieces. London: Ward.
  23. 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.
  24. Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. Nicknames: a comedietta, in one act. Sergel's acting drama ;no. 394. Chicago: Dramatic Pub. Co.
  25. Childe-Pemberton, Harriet L. Twenty minutes: drawing-room duologues, etc. London ; New York: Samuel French.
  26. Childe-Pemberton, Harriet Louisa (1880). The Story of Stella Peel ... Literary Production Committee.
  27. PEMBERTON, Harriet Louisa Childe (1881). Under the trees. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
  28. Childe-Pemberton, Harriet Louisa (1882). The Fairy Tales of Every Day. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
  29. Jack Zipes (January 1989). Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves. Psychology Press. pp. 209–. ISBN 978-0-415-90140-6.
  30. Laurence Talairach-Vielmas (7 May 2014). Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 113–. ISBN 978-1-137-34240-9.
  31. Pemberton, Harriet Louisa Childe- (1888). Birdie. Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh.
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