Catherine Grace Godwin

Catherine Grace Godwin

Self portrait[1]
Born Catherine Grace Garnett
25 December 1798
Glasgow
Died May 1845
Barbon
Nationality Scottish
Known for poetry
Spouse(s) Thomas Godwin

Catherine Grace Godwin (25 December 1798 – 1845) was a Scottish novelist, amateur painter and poet.[2]

Life

Godwin was born in Glasgow on 15 December 1798.[3] Her mother, Catherine Grace Cleveland, died in childbirth. Her father, Dr. Thomas Garnett, devastated by the loss of his wife died in 1802.[4] Godwin and her elder sister were brought up by a friend of their mother, Mary Worboys, in the village of Barbon near Kirkby Lonsdale in Westmoreland.[3]

Girl in a white and red dress By Catherine Grace Godwin

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.[1]

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 othe poems in 1828 which she dedicated to Wordsworth.[1]

Godwin published The Night before the Bridal and other poems before she married Thomas Godwin who had worked for the East India Company. She followed this with another book of poetry and she died in May 1845 in Barbon.[3]

In 1854 A. Cleveland Wigan gathered together her poems and had them published with her self-portrait.[1]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 The Poetical Works of the Late Great Catherine Grace Godwin, A. Cleveland Wigan, 1854
  2. "Godwin, Catherine Grace (1798-1845), poet and writer". oxfordindex.oup.com. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 Wikisource link to Godwin, Catherine Grace (DNB00). Wikisource.
  4.  Garnett, Richard (1890). "Garnett, Thomas (1766–1802)". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co. citing: [Memoir prefixed to Zoonomia, 1804; Gent. Mag. 1802; Becker's Scientific London.]
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