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Ellen Pickering (1801 or 1802 – 25 November 1843) 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'' (1839). ==Life and work== Ellen Pickering was born in 1801 or 1802 and was brought up near Bath, Somerset, in South West England. The Pickering family income was derived from the Jamaican slave trade; when the practice was made illegal in Bath, the family temporarily moved to Hampshire. Pickering had early success as a writer and she reputedly earned £100 a year () after she started publishing in 1825. Her books mixed history and romance in the style of Sir Walter Scott.〔 Pickering wrote sixteen three-volume novels up to 1840.〔 Her novel ''Nan Darrell, or The Gypsy Mother'' (1839) was her most successful book and was reprinted five times up to 1865, years after her death. The novel was first written just after the success of a gypsy trilogy published by British novelist Hannah Maria Jones (1784–1854).〔Elizabeth Lee, "Pickering, Ellen (1801/2–1843)", rev. Kathryn Sutherland, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 30 March 2015 )〕 The motif of gypsies, particularly in the fictional role of kidnappers, was popular in nineteenth-century Victorian literature.〔Poovey, Mary (Fall 2000). "Recovering Ellen Pickering." ''The Yale Journal of Criticism'', 13 (2): 437-452. .〕 ''Nan Darrell, or The Gypsy Mother'' features a lead gypsy character reminiscent of Meg Merrilies from Scott's novel Guy Mannering.〔 Pickering died in Bath, Somerset, in 1843 of scarlet fever. Her partially complete novel ''The Grandfather'' was finished and published by her friend the novelist Elizabeth Youatt.
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