Catherine Hutton

Catherine Hutton in 1824

Catherine Hutton (11 February 1756 – 13 March 1846) was an English novelist and letter-writer.

Born in Birmingham, the daughter of historian William Hutton, Hutton became a friend of the scientist and discoverer of oxygen Joseph Priestley and the novelist Robert Bage. A keen letter-writer, she corresponded with, among others, Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton and her mathematician cousin Charles Hutton.^[1] She built up a collection of over two thousand letters, some of which were published after her death.^[2]

Hutton published a number of novels including The Miser Married: a Novel (1813) - itself partly written as a series of letters - The Welsh Mountaineer (1817) and Oakwood Hall (1819). She also wrote a history of the Queens of England and numerous pieces of journalism.^[1]

References

1. Mitchell, Rosemary (2004). "Hutton, Catherine (1756–1846)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14299. Retrieved 21 February 2008.
2. "Catherine Hutton". Literary Heritage West Midlands. Shropshire County Council. 11 March 2004. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2008.

External links

• The miser married Complete text of Hutton's first published novel
• "Archival material relating to Catherine Hutton". UK National Archives.
• The Tour of Africa - compiled by Catherine Hutton
• Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century: Letters of Catherine Hutton at the Internet Archive