Catharina Smith

English novelist and actress

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.