Old Photographs St Catherine Street Cupar Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cars and buildings on St Catherine Street in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. Henrietta Keddie was born in Cupar, Fife, on 4 March 1827 to Philip Keddie, a lawyer, and his wife, Mary, née Gibb, and spent her childhood summers at Grange Farm, outside Elie and Earlsferry, where her father owned a coalmine. She was educated by an older sister, Margaret, and then attended school in Leith, Edinburgh, for a time. In 1848, Henrietta and three of her sisters set up a school in Cupar. In 1869, after the death of her parents and most of her siblings, she and Margaret moved to Blackheath, London, England, and then to Kensington. She became a prolific Scottish novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Sarah Tytler. Her domestic realism became popular with women, as did her conduct books for girls. She went on a continental tour with friends and an adopted daughter in 1884, and then moved to Oxford for twenty years and Bristol for two, before returning to London, where she died in Belsize Park Gardens on 6 January 1914.

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