Crowe, Catherine Anne (c. 1800–1876)
Crowe, Catherine Anne (c. 1800–1876)
British novelist, short-story writer and translator. Name variations: Catherine Stevens Crowe. Born Catherine Stevens, c. 1800 in Borough Green, Kent, England; died 1876 in Folkestone, Kent; dau. of John Stevens; m. John Crowe (lieutenant-colonel), 1822.
Wrote realistic novels about working people, as well as works on the supernatural; novels include Adventures of Susan Hopley; or, Circumstantial Evidence (1841), Men and Women; or, Manorial Rights (1843), The Story of Lilly Dawson (1847), Adventures of a Beauty (1852) and Linny Lockwood (1854); works on the supernatural include The Night Side of Nature; or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers (1848) and Spiritualism and the Age We Live In (1859).
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