Maria La Touche

Maria Catherine Price La Touche (15 December 1824 – 21 November 1906) was an Irish writer.

Maria Catherine Price was born on 15 December 1824 at Desart Court in County Kilkenny, Ireland. She was the daughter of Rose Lambart Price, eldest son of Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet, and Catherine O'Connor, widow of John Otway Cuffe, 2nd Earl of Desart. Her father died when she was an infant. Maria Price divided her time as a child between Brighton and Desart, and was educated at home.

On 16 May 1843, she married John La Touche, son of the MP Robert La Touche. They lived at his estate, Harristown in County Kildare, spending winters in London. They had three children: Emily (born 1844), Percy (born 1846), and Rose (born 1848). The family had met Ruskin in London in 1858. She translated works by Pauline de la Ferronnays with her cousin, Maria Catherine Bishop. Lady Willoughby: or, The Double Marriage. 3 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1855. The letters of a noble woman: Mrs. La Touche of Harristown, 1908.