Catherine Smith (or Catherina Smith) was an English novelist and actress, best known for her gothic fiction. Almost all that is known of her is that she came from a wealthy family, and had acted at the Haymarket Theatre in London.[1]
Novels
- The Misanthrope Father, or The Guarded Secret (1807)
- The Castle of Arragon: or, The Banditti of the Forest (1809; Worldcat)
- The Caledonian Bandit or The Heir of Duncaethal (1811; WorldCat)
- Barozzi, or The Venetian Sorceress (1815) (Internet Archive; WorldCat; Valancourt Books edition ISBN 978-0-9766048-7-7)
References
- ^ Watkins, John; Shoberl, Frederic; Upcott, William (1816). A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland: Comprising Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes of Their Lives, and a Chronological Register of Their Publications, with the Number of Editions Printed; Including Notices of Some Foreign Writers Whose Works Have Been Occasionally Published in England. H. Colburn. p. 322. Retrieved 10 March 2018.