H. Pemberton

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H. Pemberton was a British 19th century historian, traveler, and writer. Possibly a female using a pseudonym, [1] Pemberton wrote both fiction (i.e. Dacia Singleton) and non-fiction (i.e. The History of Monaco and A Winter Tour in Spain.)

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Criticism for The History of Monaco

It was reviewed in The Spectator (22 February 1868) which printed the following:

We cannot say that we feel much interest in Mr. Pemberton's subject, and the want is not supplied by his treatment of it. Monaco must be a pretty place, not only from what we remember of Tennyson's lines- HOW like a gem beneath, the city Of little Monaco basking glowed- but also from the description in one chapter of this volume. Yet we do not care to read biographical notices of a string of princes who happened to take their title from the town, and these form the staple of Mr. Pemberton's book. We notice at the end that he talks of the gainbling [sic] house as one of the " improvements " of Monaco, which reminds us of a speaker at the Oxford Union praising King Bomba for having built an arsenal.

[2] It was considered by the London Chronicle as "contemporary literature." [3] It was also reviewed in the Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance, Volume 25. Published on 13 June 1868, the review called Pemberton's history of Monaco a project that "serves nobody's purpose." [4]

Works

Several of Pemberton's works were published by the Tinsley Brothers (William and Edward Tinsley) of 18 Catherine Street, Strand, London. [1]

Credited to H. Pemberton

Published anonymously

  1. Volume 1
  2. Volume 2
  3. Volume 3

Theory about authorship

It has been theorized that H. Pemberton was the pseudonym of "Helen Crookshank" who married a man named Augustus Pemberton Gipps. [1] [10] [11] The petition for divorce filed in 1862 by Gipps against Helen on accusation of adultery cited William Wentworth FitzWilliam Dick (Member of Parliament, and himself married) as accomplice in the alleged wrong. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "At the Circulating Library Author Information: Mrs. Pemberton". 4 August 2019. Archived from the original on 4 August 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  2. ↑ "The History of Monaco, Past and Present. By H. Pemberton. » 22 Feb 18…". 19 December 2018. Archived from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  3. ↑ "Contemporary Literature". The London Chronicle. I. 4 January 1868. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  4. ↑ "Pemberton's History of Monaco". The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance. 25. 13 June 1868. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  5. 1 2 Pemberton, H. (19 September 1868). "A winter tour in Spain". London : Tinsley Brothers. Retrieved 19 September 2019– via Internet Archive.
  6. ↑ "Tinsleys' Magazine". XV. July–December 1874. Retrieved 14 March 2019.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ↑ "Tinsley Brothers' New Novels". The Spectator. 47. 14 March 1874. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  8. ↑ "Dacia Singleton". London : Tinsley Brothers. 19 September 1867. Retrieved 19 September 2019– via Internet Archive.
  9. ↑ "Not in Sadleir; Wolff 5516, citing several letters between himself and a librarian, in which the identity of 'Mrs Pemberton' is discussed. Copac lists four copies, two of which (Cambridge & NLS) are attributed to Mrs Pemberton; the BL and Oxford do not give an author. Victorianresearch.org identifies the author as Helen Etough Gipps, née Crookshank, 1830-1877, author of seven three-decker novels. She was embroiled in a divorce scandal in the 1860s and, perhaps wishing to avoid the negative publicity, published her society novels pseudonymously. Will is the Cause of Woe was her last novel, published posthumously." Source: https://www.jarndyce.co.uk/stock_detail.php?stockid=83814
  10. ↑ "Will is the Cause of Woe". www.jarndyce.co.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  11. 1 2 "Gipps v Gipps". Journal of the House of Lords. 96. 1864. Retrieved 4 August 2019.


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