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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Susanna Peyton Armstrong

Author: Susanna Peyton Armstrong (1840–1935)

Alternate Name(s): Sidney Pickering (pseudonym)

Biography: Susanna Peyton Armstrong was born in 1840 in Wookey, the daughter of the Rev. John Armstrong, rector of Dinder and Prebendary of Wells, and Mary Anne (née Scobell). Her older sister was the novelist Frances Charlotte Armstrong. In middle age, she wrote several popular juvenile titles under the pseudonym "Sidney Pickering." Armstrong's best known book was the children's tale Worth a Threepenny Bit. According to her obituary, she "was a woman of wide culture, and her mind remained unimpaired till the last." She never married and died on 16 June 1935 in Falmouth.

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References: British Census (1901); Cornishman (20 June 1935); Literary Year-Book (1900); Probate

Fiction Titles:

  1. The Romance of a Picture.  1 vol.  London: Archibald Constable, 1895.
  2. Margot.  1 vol.  London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1897.
  3. Wanderers.  1 vol.  London: James Bowden, 1898.
  4. Verity.  1 vol.  London: Edward Arnold, 1900.