Pardoe, JULIA, born at Beverley in 1806, published poems and a novel in her fifteenth year, and Traits and Traditions of Portugal in 1833. A visit to Constantinople in 1836 led to her City of the Sultan, Romance of the Harem, and Beauties of the Bosphorus. She next visited Hungary, and wrote The City of the Magyar, and a novel, The Hungarian Castle (1842). A series of works deal with French history—Louis XIV. and the Court of France (1847), The Court and Reign of Francis I. (1849), The Life of Mary de Medicis (1852; new ed. 1891). A Pilgrimage in Paris, and Episodes of French History (1859). Others of her numerous works are The Confessions of a Pretty Woman, Flies in Amber, The Jealous Wife, Reginald Lyle,
Lady Arabella, and The Thousand and One Days. She received a pension of £100 in 1859, and died 26th November 1862.