Catherine Crowe

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Catherine Crowe (née Stevens) (c. 1803 - 1876), was an English writer of dramas, children's books, and one or two novels, including Susan Hopley (1841), and Lilly Dawson (1847). She is chiefly remembered for her Night-side of Nature (1848; new edition, 1904), a collection of stories of the supernatural.

She was born in Borough Green, Kent. In 1822 she married an army officer surnamed Crowe, and spent most of the rest of her life in Edinburgh. In her novels, among which are Adventures of Susan Hopley (1841), Lilly Dawson (1847), and Linny Lockwood (1854), she showed much skill and ingenuity in the development of the plot. [1] A later collection of her ghost stories is Ghost Stories and Family Legends (1859). Two tales from this book, "The Italian's Story" (1859) and "Round the Fire" (1859) are included in Victorian Ghost Stories (1936), edited by Montague Summers.

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.