Catherine Ann Crowe [née Stephens]

(1790-1872)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Crowe, Catherine, 1790-1876 NRA: Crowe, Catherine Ann (1790-1876) nee Stevens, Novelist Dramatist DNB: Crowe [née Stevens], Catherine Ann (1790-1872), novelist and writer on the supernatural LBT ID: CaCrowe1872 VIAF ID: 103691256 LOC ID: n82208107	B/BAP: 1790-09-20 DIED: 1872-06-14
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English novelist, daughter of John Stevens (1758-1833); in 1822 she married Major John Crowe (1783-1860) and corresponded with Sydney Smith. She published The Adventures of Susan Hopley, or, Circumstantial Evidence (1841) and other works.
REFERENCES TO Catherine Ann Crowe [née Stephens]: Sydney Smith to Catherine Ann Crowe, 6 January 1840 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Editor’s Preface Found 1: ¶ 9 Letters 1840 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 1