About Catherine Smith
Lived 1807 – 1815 (aged 7–8). Catherine Smith was a British novelist and actor.
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.
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 )
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Catherine Smith was born in 1807.
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Catherine Smith died in 1815.
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