John Pemble

John Pemble is an English historian. He earned a degree from Clare College, Cambridge, then studied at the University of Pennsylvania, SOAS University of London, and Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes. He taught at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, University of Leicester, and University of Bristol.[1] He is best known for his cultural history The Mediterranean Passion,[2] which co-won the 1987 Wolfson Literary Award for History.[1][3]

Books

As author

  • Pemble, John (1971). The Invasion of Nepal: John Company at War. Oxford: Clarendon Press.[4]
  • Pemble, John (1977). The Raj, the Indian Mutiny, and the Kingdom of Oudh, 1801-1859. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.[5]
  • Pemble, John (1987). The Mediterranean Passion: Victorians and Edwardians in the South. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Pemble, John (1995). Venice Rediscovered. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-820501-5.[6]
  • Pemble, John (2000). John Addington Symonds: Culture and the Demon Desire. Houndmills, Baskingstoke and London: Macmillan.[7]
  • Pemble, John (2005). Shakespeare Goes to Paris: How the Bard Conquered France. London and New York: Hambledon and London.[8]
  • Pemble, John; Cross, J. P. (2008). Britain's Gurkha War: The Invasion of Nepal, 1814-16. Frontline.
  • Pemble, John (2017). The Rome We Have Lost. New York: Oxford University Press.[9]

As editor

  • Fane, Isabella (1985). Pemble, John (ed.). Miss Fane in India: The Indian Diary of a Victorian Lady. Alan Sutton. ISBN 0-86299-240-0.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "John Pemble". Pen and Sword Books. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
  2. ^ Channon, Geoffrey (September 1990). "Book Review: The Mediterranean Passion. Victorians and Edwardians in the South". The Journal of Transport History. 11 (2): 90–90. doi:10.1177/002252669001100223. ISSN 0022-5266.
  3. ^ "John Pemble". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
  4. ^ St. Martin, M. O. (1971). "Review of The Invasion of Nepal: John Company at War". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 34 (3): 616–617. ISSN 0041-977X.
  5. ^ Greenberger, Allen J. (1979). "Review of The Memsahibs: The Women of Victorian India; The Raj, the Indian Mutiny, and the Kingdom of Oudh, 1801-1859". Victorian Studies. 22 (3): 363–364. ISSN 0042-5222.
  6. ^ Otness, Harold M. (15 February 1995). "Pemble, John. Venice Rediscovered". Library Journal: 169 – via EBSCOhost.
  7. ^ Kneale, Nick (2002). "Review of John Addington Symonds: Culture and the Demon Desire". The Review of English Studies. 53 (209): 157–159. ISSN 0034-6551.
  8. ^ Schoch, Richard (2006). "Review of Shakespeare Goes to Paris: How the Bard Conquered France". Shakespeare Quarterly. 57 (2): 237–239. ISSN 0037-3222.
  9. ^ De Francesco, Antonino (1 February 2020). "John Pemble. The Rome We Have Lost". The American Historical Review. 125 (1): 313–314. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhz083. ISSN 0002-8762.
  10. ^ Derby, Shannon (2020). "Gossip, Mosquitos, and 'Well-Made' Men: Isabella Fane's Vision of Colonial India". In Dutta, Sutapa (ed.). British Women Travellers: Empire and Beyond, 1770-1870. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-50748-5.
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