Sarah Tytler

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Henrietta Keddie, who wrote under the pen name ST , was a prolific Scottish author who aimed at a predominantly female audience. Over her nearly sixty-year publishing career she produced more than one novel a year, with a total somewhere over 75 but under 100. Her books rarely ran to more than one edition. Writing in the vein of domestic realism, she often employed historical and often Scottish settings. She summed up her own literary output as consisting of a good many novels, historical and present-day stories for girls, historical sketches . . . [and several lives] of remarkable women.
Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray.
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Milestones

4 March 1827

Henrietta Keddie (who later wrote as ST ) was born at Cupar in Fife, Scotland.
The form given in the baptismal record on 30 March was Heneritty Gibb Keddy.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1852

ST 's first novel, The Kinnears: A Scottish Story, appeared anonymously in three volumes at London, but not in time for her father (who took a keen interest in her emergence as an author) to see it before his death this year.
Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray.
254-5
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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1884

In contrast to the mostly rural literary depictions of Victorian Scotland, Saint Mungo's City [i.e. Glasgow], published this year by ST , was almost unique as a novel dealing with Scottish industrialization and urban life.
St Mungo is the patron saint of Glasgow, which legend says he founded.
Burgess, Moira. “Rediscovering Scottish Women’s Fiction in the Nineteenth Century”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 196-07.
200-1
Hart, Francis Russell. The Scottish Novel: From Smollett to Spark. Harvard University Press.
110-112

1887

In her best-known novel, Logie Town, ST offers a compassionate fictionalized portrait of everyday life in the Scottish village of Cupar, where she lived for the first forty years of her life.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tytler, Sarah. Logie Town. National Publishing Company.

By late October 1911

ST 's final publication was a family autobiography entitled Three Generations: The Story of a Middle-Class Scottish Family.
Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray.
prelims
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
511 (26 October 1911): 415

6 January 1914

Henrietta Keddie (who wrote as ST ) died at her home at 68 Belsize Park Gardens, London.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

4 March 1827

Henrietta Keddie (who later wrote as ST ) was born at Cupar in Fife, Scotland.
The form given in the baptismal record on 30 March was Heneritty Gibb Keddy.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.