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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Catherine Crowe (1790–1876)

Crowe, Catherine. An English story-teller; born (Stevens) at Borough Green, Kent, 1790; died in 1876. She made her first essay with a tragedy, ‘Aristodemus,’ and then turned to prose fiction. ‘Lily Dawson’ (1847) is regarded as the best of her novels. She wrote also ‘The Night Side of Nature’ (2 vols., 1852).