Author: Emma S. Pratt
Author: Emma S. Pratt (1850–1933)
Alternate Name(s): Susan Emma Pratt (alternate name)
Biography: Emma S. Pratt was born in 1850 in London, the daughter of merchant George Pratt and his wife Priscilla Sheppard Else. She never married and lived with one or more of her sisters for nearly her entire life. Beginning in the 1870s, she wrote a string of novels for juvenile readers mainly published by the R.T.S. After her mother died in 1888, she and her sisters moved south to Broadwater. Sadly, Pratt outlived her sisters and died alone on 2 May 1933 in Southbourne.
References: British Census (1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921); Probate; Worthing Gazette (13 February 1929, 10 May 1933)
Fiction Titles:
- Daisy's Mistake: A Tale. 1 vol. London: William Macintosh, 1874.
- Katie, the Fisherman's Little Daughter. 1 vol. London: R. T. S., 1878.
- The Eldest of Seven. 1 vol. London: R. T. S., 1881.
- Ivy's Armour. 1 vol. London: R. T. S., 1883.
- Dorothy Northbrooke: The Story of a Sister's Influence. 1 vol. London: R. T. S., 1885.
- Not Mine, but His. 1 vol. London: R. T. S., 1889.
- Why Should I?: or, Ethel Geare's Discipline. 1 vol. London: R. T. S., 1889.
- Taking it up: or, Katie's Probation. 1 vol. London: R. T. S., 1890.