Sarah Pitt
Occupationauthor
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.
Front page of Little Folks periodical from 1872.

Sarah Pitt was a 19th-century English children's author. She wrote several children's novels published by Cassell and Co., during a period of activity between 1881 and 1900.[1] In addition she provided 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 Sarah Pitt's novel Bear and Forbear as "one of the good things of the year."[3] In 1891 it 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 in the British Library Historical Print editions series.[6]

List of works

  • Dick's Hero, and Other Stories, 1881
  • Fritters, or, "It's a Long Lane that has no Turning", 1885
  • Bear and Forbear, 1886, illustrated by P. McNab
  • White House at Inch Gow, 1891, illustrated by John Henry Frederick Bacon[7]
  • The Cost of a Mistake, 1897, illustrated by Hal Ludlow, i. e. Henry Stephen Ludlow
  • A Limited Success, 1897
  • Peggy Price's Luck, 1899
  • A Pair of Primroses, 1900

References

  1. ↑ "Item record for Dick's hero : and other stories /by Sarah Pitt". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Online Books page Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  3. ↑ "SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL CHRISTMAS BOOKS.—Lo » 6 Nov 1886 » The Spectator Archive". The Spectator Archive. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "The White House at Inch Gow. By Sarah Pitt. (Cassell » 12 Dec 1891 » The Spectator Archive". The Spectator Archive. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Selections from Cassell & Company's Publications.
  6. ↑ Depository, Book. "Results for sarah pitt | Book Depository". www.bookdepository.com. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Limited, Alamy. "Stock Photo - Image taken from page 49 of 'The White House at Inch Gow, etc. [A tale.]'". Alamy. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
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