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Catherine Cuthbertson (c. 1775 – June 1842) was an English-language novelist published in London in the early 19th century. She may also have written an unpublished 1803 play under the name "Miss Cuthbertson".
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Catherine Cuthbertson (c. 1775 – June 1842) was an English-language novelist published in London in the early 19th century. She may also have written an unpublished 1803 play under the name "Miss Cuthbertson".
Unknowns
Cuthbertson's origins are not known, although it appears that she was born before 1780, was the daughter of an army officer, and had at least four siblings. She is thought to have died some time after her final known book appeared in 1830.Orlando ProjecRetrieved 28 November 2015
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Helen Craik
Helen Craik (c. 1751 – 11 June 1825) was a Scottish poet and novelist, and a correspondent of Robert Burns. She praised him for being a "native genius, gay, unique and strong" in an introductory poem to his Glenriddell Manuscripts.
Early life
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have not been substantiated.Corvey "Adopt an Author": "Biography of Catherine Cuthbertson by Beryl ChaudhuriRetrieved 28 November 2015
Research in 2016 at the
University of Kent
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, mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' ...
revealed that "Kitty" Cuthbertson was well known in her time. A burial record discovered indicates that she died in Ealing in June 1842, possibly aged 67. This would make her date of birth about 1775.
Works
Among her works were ''Romance of the Pyrenees'' (1803), ''Forest of Montalbano'' (1810), ''Adelaide; or, The Countercharm'' (1813), ''Rosabella, or A Mother's Marriage'' (1817), ''The Hut and the Castle: a Romance'' (1823), and ''Sir Ethelbert; or, the Dissolution of Monasteries'' (1830). At least one, ''Santo Sebastiano'' (1806), was published twice in penny instalments, as ''The Heiress of Montalvan, or First and Second Love''(1845–46) and as ''Santo Sebastiano, or The Heiress of Montalvan'' (1847–48). Cuthbertson has been described by present-day scholars as a "fairly conventional novelist" using "historically realised settings (often in continental Europe)" with "happy endings". Her upper-class characters appear virtuous, her lower-class ones comic or occasionally horrific. There are many incidents of fainting. A recent anthologist puts her among "the best of theRadcliffe
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imitators."Rictor Norton, ed.: ''Gothic Readings. The First Wave 1760–1840'' (London: Leicester University Press, 2000), p. 88. ''Romance of the Pyrenees'' was serialized in the ''Lady's Magazine'', starting in February 1804, but not in book form, "probably because the expected second sale did not warrant the cost." It took three years and "is the longest novel ever published in an eighteenth-century miscellany
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, with the single exception of '' Pamela''." The work was also translated into French, but attributed there to Radcliffe, and German. ''Sir Ethelbert'' has been noted as having footnotes which reflect wide historical reading.
See also
*List of Minerva Press authors
This is an alphabetical list of authors who published at Minerva Press, or with William Lane before he coined the name, between the founding of the press in 1790 and 1820 or so when Lane's successor, A. K. Newman, dropped "Minerva" from the com ...
*Minerva Press
Minerva Press was a publishing house, noted for creating a lucrative market in sentimental and Gothic fiction in the late 18th century and early 19th century. It was established by William Lane (c. 1745–1814) at No 33 Leadenhall Street, Lond ...
External source
*Online editions of her novels: the Online Books PagRetrieved 28 November 2015
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James Malcolm Rymer
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.)British Library cataloguRetrieved 28 November 2015
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cuthbertson, Catherine English women novelists 19th-century English novelists 19th-century English women writers Writers of Gothic fiction 1775 births 1842 deaths