Harriet L. Childe-Pemberton

Harriet Louisa Childe-Pemberton (1 April 1852 – 13 December 1921) was an English author of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

Harriet L. Childe-Pemberton
Born	1 April 1852 St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex
Died	13 December 1921[1] Malvern, Worcestershire
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Writer, poet, playwright, novelist

Biography

Harriet Louisa Childe-Pemberton was born in 1852, in St Leonards-On-Sea, Sussex, and raised at Millichope Park, Munslow, Shropshire, the daughter of Charles Orlando Childe-Pemberton^[2] and Augusta Mary Shakespear Childe-Pemberton. In 1859, her father served as Sheriff of Shropshire. In 1870, she was presented to Queen Victoria.^[3] Her younger brother William Shakespear Childe-Pemberton (1859–1924) was also a writer, best known as a biographer.^[4][5][6]

Childe-Pemberton lived in London later in life, and wrote plays, poems, short stories, novels, and literary criticism.^[7] Her 1882 story "All My Doing; or, Red Riding-Hood Over Again" remains of interest to literary scholars, for its unique retelling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood tale.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13]} Several of her books were published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.^[14]

She died in 1921 at Wyche Cottage, in Malvern, Worcestershire.^[1]

Selected works

Poetry

• Love Knows – and Waits, and Other Poems^[15]
• "A Gift" and "The Nightingale's Song", in A Crown of Flowers: poems and pictures collected from the Girl's Own Paper (1883)^[16]
• "Was It an Angel's Song?" in Peterson's Magazine (January 1883)^[17]
• "Bye and Bye" in Peterson's Magazine (March 1884)^[18]
• "The Last Word", in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (April 1885)^[19]
• Nenuphar: The Four-Fold Flower of Life (poems, 1911)^[20]
• In a Tuscan Villa And Other Poems^[21]

Plays and dramatic recitations

• Prince, A Story of the American War (1881)
• The Tiger Tamed (a libretto, 1885)^[22]
• Dead letters, and other narrative and dramatic pieces (1896)^[23]
• A Backward Child (1899)^[24]
• Nicknames: A Comedietta in One Act (c. 1900)^[25]
• Twenty Minutes: Drawing Room Duologues (c. 1900)^[26]
• Original Readings and Recitations

Fiction

• The Story of Stella Peel (1880)^[27]
• Under the Trees (1881)^[28]
• The Fairy Tales of Every Day (1882),^[29][30][31] includes "All My Doing; Or, Red Riding-Hood Over Again"^[9][10][11]
• No Beauty (1884)^[14]
• Birdie: A Tale of Child Life (1888)^[32]