Catherine Hutton
British writer
Died when: 90 years 30 days (1081 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Catherine Hutton (11 February 1756 – 13 March 1846) was an English novelist and letter-writer.Born in Birmingham, the daughter of historian William Hutton, Hutton became a friend of the scientist and discoverer of oxygen Joseph Priestley and the novelist Robert Bage.
A keen letter-writer, she corresponded with, among others, Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton and her mathematician cousin Charles Hutton.She built up a collection of over two thousand letters, some of which were published after her death.
Hutton published a number of novels including The Miser Married: a Novel (1813) - itself partly written as a series of letters - The Welsh Mountaineer (1817) and Oakwood Hall (1819).
She also wrote a history of the Queens of England and numerous pieces of journalism.
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