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