Ellen Pickering (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). Her books mixed history and romance in the style of Sir Walter Scott.
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