CROWE

Catherine Ann ( dau. of John Stevens of Clarges street, Piccadilly, London ). b. Englefield Green, Kent 1790; lived in Edinburgh many years; a disciple of George Combe; one of the persons to whom authorship of The Vestiges of Creation was attributed 1841; author of Aristo dem us, a tragedy 1838, anon. ; The adventures of Susan Hopley 3 vols. 1841, a dramatic version of this novel entitled Susan Hopley or the vici itudes of a servant girl by Dibdin Pitt was produced at the Victoria theatre, London 31 May 1841 and played more than 300 nights; Men and women, or manorial rights 3 vols. 1843; The See rest of Prevorst, translated from Kerner 1845; The story of Lilly Dawson 2 vols. 1847; The night side of nature, or Ghosts and ghost seers 2 vols. 1848, several eds. ; Light and darkne or mysteries of life 3 vols. 1850; The adventures of a beauty, a novel 3 vols. 1852; The cruel kindne , a drama in 5 acts performed at Hay market theatre, June 6, 1853 ; Linny Lock wood 2 vols. 1853; Spiritualism and the age we live in 1859; Adventures of a monkey 1861 and many books for children. ( m. Oct. 1822 in London, lieut.-col. John Crowe who d. 7 March 1860). Resided at 22 Sandgate road, Folk est one, where she became bedridden and died of natural decay on 14 June 1872; Her son and only child Capt. John William Crowe is resident Leonard lodge, Dover road, Folk est one 1888. Victoria Mag. xxxiii , 35–44 (1879); Colburn’s New monthly mag. xcvi , 439–45 (1852).