Sarah Pitt

Sarah Pitt
Occupation	Author

Annual. Published 1887-1894. Occasionally published by: P. & D. Lyle. Also known as: Dalkeith district directory and household almanac. Followed by: Carment's directory for Dalkeith and district and year book.

Front page of Little Folks periodical from 1872.

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. 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.

Novels

Reviews in the Spectator magazine in November 1886 described her novel Bear and Forbear as "one of the good things of the year," and in 1891 praised The White House at Inch Gow as "a quite harmless story, prettily told". 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". 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.

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).)
• 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