Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
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Street Gothic: this is, works which marry the conventions of gothic with those of popular, proletarian texts.
began publishing before the end of the eighteenth century. Books for children were her first market niche: both short fiction and instructional works. She later moved into translation and into other kinds of fiction: both full-scale novels of her own, and chapbooks or bluebooks—short, sensational fiction for the young or less-educated, of which some were original and some were condensations of novels by others, including several well-known titles. Critic
regards her as an exponent of - BirthName: Sarah Carr Wilkinson
- Married: ScadgellIn fact her name, like everything about her, is a mystery. The source of Scudgell or Scadgell seems to have been her marriage, but on the comparatively few occasions when she used both names she did so in the opposite order from what might have been expected.
- Pseudonym: S. W.
- Indexed: Sarah Wilkinson; S. S. WilkinsonThough she published as Sarah Wilkinson and probably also as Mrs Wilkinson, she appears on one title-page as Miss Sarah Wilkinson.