Pamela Perkins

EH was born in Belfast, Ireland, the youngest of her family.

On a voyage across the Atlantic in 1840, a Scotswoman named Letitia Hargrave is recorded (in a letter-journal by Isobel Finlayson ) as amusing everyone by reading (presumably aloud) Meg Dodds on cookery—that is,...

Pam Perkins thinks Nights of the Round Table probably the most successful of CIJ 's children's books. For a new edition of 1842 CIJ remarked that she had no reason to be ashamed of this...

Considering the unusual topics and compelling qualities of many of her books, contemporary comments on DG were curiously lukewarm. The Churchman called a novel of 1894 clean, interesting, and wholesome. Her Times obituary conceded that...

The Critical gave this novel a long, appreciative review, praising the language, the situations, and the author's success in touching her readers' feelings, though it noted that the story was too diffuse.

EH 's death, as Pam Perkins notes, received detailed and respectful coverage throughout the national press, including The Times's lengthy and sombrely respectful obituary by Maria Edgeworth . Edgeworth was only mistaken in...

She had begun writing it in 1805 or 1806 as a little tale for the lower orders. Her Cottagers of Glenburnie and other Educational Writing was edited in 2010 by Pam Perkins ...

Pam Perkins in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls the volume mainly sentimental and melancholic, and mentions such modish topics as the simple virtues of highland peasants and the transitory nature of fame and...

Literary historian Pam Perkins points out that Spence here describes a feminocenric cultural milieu, and develops a confident voice in doing so., that she foregrounds her own roots in the Aberdeen Enlightenment, and that her...

It was published in London by Thomas Tegg and in Edinburgh by T. Dick . Pam Perkins has pointed out that Johnstone never claimed authorship of this book, which some scholars have queried, but various...