Ellen Pickering

Ellen Pickering (1802 – 25 November 1843) was a British novelist who published sixteen three-volume novels, one of them posthumously.

[2] 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).

[1] Pickering died in Bath, Somerset, in 1843 of scarlet fever and was buried 29th November that year at St Mary's Church, Bathwick.

[3] Cultural historian Mary Poovey notes that Pickering "enjoyed success among her contemporaries but achieved no lasting legacy".