Sarah Tytler

The Old Masters and Their Pictures (Dodo Press) Sarah Tytler

Henrietta Keddie (1827-1914), who wrote under the pseudonym Sarah Tytler was a Scottish author. She grew up in Elie on the Fife coast and when she was sixteen she went to Edinburgh to finish her education. She was encouraged by the essayist John Brown (1810-82) to contribute pieces to Blackwood's Magazine. After the death of her father she joined with her sisters to run a small private school in Cupar (1848-70). Her works include: Citoyenne Jacqueline (1866), The Huguenot Family in the English Village (1868), What She Came Through (1877), The Old Masters and Their Pictures (1880), Girlhood and Womanhood: The Story of Some Fortunes and Misfortunes (1883), Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen (in two volumes) (1885), A Houseful of Girls (1889), A Lonely Lassie (1893), Mermaidens (1895), The American Cousins (1897), A Loyal Little Maid (1900), Queen Charlotte's Maidens (1901), In Clarissa's Day (1903) and Innocent Masqueraders (1907).