Sarah Pitt

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]

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]

• 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