Catherine Crowe

• Name — Catherine Crowe • Birth Name — Catherine Ann Stevens • Born — 20 September 1803 • Birthplace — Borough Green, Kent, England • Died — 14 June 1876 • Place of death — Folkestone, Kent • Occupation — Writer • Genre — Novels, plays, spirit stories • Spouse — John Crowe • Children — 1 Catherine Ann Crowe (née Stevens; 20 September 1790 – 14 June 1872) was an English novelist, a writer of social and supernatural stories, and a playwright. She also wrote for children.

Catherine Ann Stevens was born in Borough Green, Kent, England. She was educated at home, spending most of her childhood in Kent. She married an army officer, Major John Crowe (1783–1872) and had a son, John William Crowe (1824–1901), but the marriage was an unhappy one, and when she met Sydney Smith and his family at Clifton, Bristol in 1828, she asked them for their help. Little is known about the next few years, but by 1838 she was separated from her husband, living in Edinburgh, and had made the acquaintance of several writers, including the impecunious Thomas de Quincey of Edinburgh and Harriet Martineau and William Makepeace Thackeray of London. Smith was also an encouragement to her in her writing. Stevens's success waned somewhat in the later 1850s and she sold her copyrights in 1861. After 1852, she lived mainly in London and abroad, but she moved to Folkestone in 1872, where she died the following year.

• Aristodemus: A Tragedy (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1838) • Adventures of Susan Hopley; or Circumstantial Evidence (London: Saunders & Otley, 1841), 3 volumes • Men and Women or, Manorial Rights (London: Saunders and Otley, 1843), 3 volumes • The Story of Lilly Dawson. (London: Henry Colburn, 1847), 3 volumes • Pippie's Warning; or, Mind your Temper (London: Arthur Hall & Co., 1848) • The Night-Side of Nature, or, Ghosts and Ghost-seers (London: T. C. Newby, 1848), 2 volumes • Light and Darkness; or, Mysteries of Life (London: Henry Colburn, 1850), 3 volumes • The Adventures of a Beauty (London: Colburn and Co., 1852), 3 volumes • The Cruel Kindness: A Romantic Play, in Five Acts – as performed at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, on Monday 6 June 1853 • Linny Lockwood: A Novel (London: George Routledge & Co., 1854), 2 volumes • Ghosts and Family Legends: A Volume for Christmas (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1859) • The Story of Arthur Hunter and His First Shilling, with Other Tales (London: James Hogg & Sons, 1861) • The Adventures of a Monkey: An Interesting Narrative (London: Dean and Son, 1862)