Sarah Pitt
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Sarah Pitt was a 19th-century English children's author. She wrote a number of children's novels published by Cassell and Co., and was active between 1881 and 1900.[1] In addition to these, she supplied several short stories for the publication Little Folks, a "magazine for the young" which was also published by Cassell.[2]
Novels
Reviews in the Spectator magazine in November 1886 described her novel Bear and Forbear as "one of the good things of the year,"[3] and in 1891 praised The White House at Inch Gow as "a quite harmless story, prettily told".[4] Pitt's second novel, Fritters: or, 'It's a Long Lane that has no Turning' appeared in 1885 in the "Proverbs" series: "original stories by popular authors founded upon and illustrating well-known proverbs".[5] It is a "bad-boy-turns-good" story, in which didacticism is accompanied by a realistic narrative set in the London Docklands.
The White House at Inch Gow and A Limited Success have been reprinted by the British Library Historical Print editions series.[6]
List of works
- Dick's Hero, and Other Stories, published 1881
- Fritters, or, "It's a Long Lane that has no Turning", published 1885
- Bear and Forbear, published 1886 (illustrated by P. McNab)
- White House at Inch Gow, published 1891 (illustrated by John Henry Frederick Bacon).[7])
- The Cost of a Mistake, published 1897 (illustrated by Hal Ludlow, i. e. Henry Stephen Ludlow)
- A Limited Success, published 1897
- Peggy Price's Luck, published 1899
- A Pair of Primroses, published 1900
References
- ^ "Item record for Dick's hero : and other stories /by Sarah Pitt". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ Online Books page Retrieved 9 December 2018.
- ^ "SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL CHRISTMAS BOOKS.—Lo » 6 Nov 1886 » The Spectator Archive". The Spectator Archive. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
- ^ "The White House at Inch Gow. By Sarah Pitt. (Cassell » 12 Dec 1891 » The Spectator Archive". The Spectator Archive. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ Selections from Cassell & Company's Publications.
- ^ Depository, Book. "Results for sarah pitt | Book Depository". www.bookdepository.com. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
- ^ Limited, Alamy. "Stock Photo - Image taken from page 49 of 'The White House at Inch Gow, etc. [A tale.]'". Alamy. Retrieved 2017-11-24.