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Catherine Grace Godwin (25 December 1798 – 1845) was a Scottish novelist, amateur painter and poet.
She began painting and writing poetry in earnest when she was fifteen but she did not publish any work until 1854. The book allowed her to become a correspondent and eventually meet
A. Cleveland Wigan, 1854
Biography
Catherine Grace Garnett was born inGlasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...
on 15 December 1798. Her mother, Catherine Grace Cleveland, died in childbirth
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. Her father, Dr. Thomas Garnett, devastated by the loss of his wife died in 1802. Godwin and her elder sister were brought up by a friend of their mother, Mary Worboys, in the village of Barbon
Barbon is a village and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 263, reducing to 236 at the 2011 Census. The church is dedicated to St Bartholomew. The village is abou ...
near Kirkby Lonsdale
Kirkby Lonsdale () is a town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, on the River Lune. Historically in Westmorland, it lies south-east of Kendal on the A65. The parish recorded a population of 1,771 in the 2001 ...
in Westmoreland.
She began painting and writing poetry in earnest when she was fifteen but she did not publish any work until 1854. The book allowed her to become a correspondent and eventually meet William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798).
Wordsworth's ' ...
.
She published a romance titled ''Reine Canziani'' but she did not use her name on the cover. She did publish her best known work ''The Wanderer's Legacy and other poems'' in 1828 which she dedicated to Wordsworth.
Godwin published ''The Night before the Bridal and other poems'' before she married Thomas Godwin who had worked for the East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
. She followed this with another book of poetry and she died in May 1845 in Barbon.
In 1854, A. Cleveland Wigan gathered together her poems and had them published with her self-portrait.The Poetical Works of the Late Great Catherine Grace GodwinA. Cleveland Wigan, 1854
Selected works
* Alicia Grey, Or, to Be Useful Is to Be Happy * Reine Canziani * Josephine, Or, Early Trials * The Wanderer's Legacy: a Collection of Poems, on Various Subjects * Louisa Seymour, or, Hasty Impressions * The Reproving Angel: A Vision * Esther More, or, Truth is Wisdom * Basil Harlow, or Prodigality is not Generosity * Cousin Kate, or the Punishment of Pride * Scheming, A TaleReferences
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