page_title: Ellen Pickering
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Ellen Pickering / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: English: The Prince and the Pedlar by Ellen Pickering title page
context_page_description: Ellen Pickering 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. Her books mixed history and romance in the style of Sir Walter Scott.
context_section_description: Pickering published a total of sixteen novels. The Grandfather was published posthumously.
  The Marriage of the Favourite, or, She Bred Him a Soldier, 1826
  The Heiress (three volumes), 1833
  Agnes Serle, 1835
  The Merchant's Daughter, 1836
  The Prince and the Pedlar, or The Siege of Bristol, 1839
  The Squire, 1837
  Nan Darrell, or The Gipsy Mother, 1839
  The Fright, 1839
  The Quiet Husband, 1840
  Who Shall Be Heir?, 1840
  The Secret Foe, 1841
  The Expectant, 1842
  Cousin Hinton, or, Friend or Foe?, 1843
  Charades for Acting, 1843
  The Grumbler, 1844
  The Grandfather, 1846 (completed by a friend) (An edition exists published in fragile tan wrappers with an imprint  of New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. No. 39 - Library of Select Novels
caption: The Prince and the Pedlar (1839)
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