Author: P. E. S.
Author: P. E. S. (birth and death dates unknown)
Alternate Name(s): (pseudonym); S. E. P. (pseudonym)
Biography: This author cannot be traced. Author of several shorter works including Biddy, the Maid of All Work (1868), Tibby the Charwoman, and Her Friends (1868), and Joe the Gardener, and His Pupil (1870). Notably, in 1885, a composer James Tipton turned Biddy into a “evening service of songs” which had a brief popularity with youth choirs for five or so years. Despite the renewed interest, no author of the original was identified.
References: Taunton Courier (26 August 1885)
Fiction Titles:
- Lucy Smith, the Music Governess. 1 vol. Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Co., 1868.
- Jem the Tinker and his Children. 1 vol. Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Co., 1869.
- Lindsay Lee and his Friends: A Story for the Times. 1 vol. Edinburgh: Johnstone, Hunter, and Co., 1869.
- Philip Moore the Sculptor. 1 vol. London: Partridge, 1870.
- French Bessie. 1 vol. Edinburgh: Johnstone, Hunter, and Co., 1871.
- Joseph Pilmor, the Quaker Soldier: and Other Stories. 1 vol. Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Co., 1873.
- Ivan Papof, the Russian Peasant: A Tale Founded on Facts. 1 vol. Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Co., 1873.
- His Excellency: or, Aline Carruthers and her Friends. 1 vol. Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Co., 1875.
- Carry Morgan: or, The Stolen Purse. 1 vol. Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Co., 1876.
- Sister Cora: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century. 1 vol. Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Co., 1876.