Some excerpts were included in The Young Lady's Guide, an American Tract Society
volume of advice literature collected from several authors. A subsequent book for young women, entitled Sweet Counsel: A Book for Girls...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Tytler
The untimely death of Mary (sister of Henrietta Keddie, who from the year after this wrote as ST
) occurred, to be followed by those of her only brother in 1864, sister Jessie in 1866...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Tytler
ST
's mother, Mary Gibb
, belonged to a large family plagued by consumption, or the white scourge. Seven out of nine siblings succumbed to what was later called tuberculosis.
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, 1997, pp. 196-07.
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Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray, 1911.
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Material Conditions of Writing
Sarah Tytler
She then began producing novels in earnest: four appeared between 1859 and 1861.