Catherine Grace Godwin

Catherine Grace Godwin (25 December 1798 – 1845) was a Scottish novelist, amateur painter and poet.[2]

Catherine Grace Godwin
Self portrait[1]
Born
Catherine Grace Garnett

25 December 1798
Glasgow
DiedMay 1845 (aged 26)
Barbon
NationalityScottish
Known forpoetry
Spouse(s)Thomas Godwin

Biography

Catherine Grace Garnett was born in Glasgow on 15 December 1798.[3] Her mother, Catherine Grace Cleveland, died in childbirth. Her father, Dr. Thomas Garnett, devastated by the loss of his wife died in 1802.[4] Godwin and her elder sister were brought up by a friend of their mother, Mary Worboys, in the village of Barbon near Kirkby Lonsdale in Westmoreland.[3]

Girl in a white and red dress By Catherine Grace Godwin

She began painting and writing poetry in earnest when she was fifteen but she did not publish any work until 1854. The book allowed her to become a correspondent and eventually meet William Wordsworth.[1]

She published a romance titled Reine Canziani but she did not use her name on the cover. She did publish her best known work The Wanderer's Legacy and other poems in 1828 which she dedicated to Wordsworth.[1]

Godwin published The Night before the Bridal and other poems before she married Thomas Godwin who had worked for the East India Company. She followed this with another book of poetry and she died in May 1845 in Barbon.[3]

In 1854, A. Cleveland Wigan gathered together her poems and had them published with her self-portrait.[1]

Selected works
  • Alicia Grey, Or, to Be Useful Is to Be Happy
  • Reine Canziani
  • Josephine, Or, Early Trials
  • The Wanderer's Legacy: a Collection of Poems, on Various Subjects

References
  1. The Poetical Works of the Late Great Catherine Grace Godwin, A. Cleveland Wigan, 1854
  2. "Godwin, Catherine Grace (1798–1845), poet and writer". oxfordindex.oup.com. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. "Godwin, Catherine Grace" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. Garnett, Richard (1890). "Garnett, Thomas (1766–1802)" . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co. citing: [Memoir prefixed to Zoonomia, 1804; Gent. Mag. 1802; Becker's Scientific London.]
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