About Catharine Selden
Lived 1775 – 1850 (aged 74–75). Catharine Selden was a novelist and writer.
Catharine Selden (dates not known) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels in the early 19th century.
Little known today, she was "prolific" and her novels "best-selling" for her publisher, Minerva Press. She published seven novels. The first, The English Nun (1797), was written in imitation of Diderot's La Religieuse (1792).
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British writer
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Catharine Selden was born in 1775.
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Catharine Selden died in 1850.
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Catharine Selden was a novelist and writer.
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