Author Information At the Circulating LibraryAuthor: Catherine Simpson Wynne (1817–1905) Alternate Name(s): Jessopp (maiden name) Biography: Catherine Simpson Wynne was born in 1817 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, the daughter of John Sympson Jessopp (1779–1851), a barrister-at-law, deputy lieutenant, and justice of the peace. She married Robert Wynne, a partner in a firm of Liverpool shipbuilders. Late in life, she wrote half-a-dozen novels. In one, Margaret's Engagement (1867), Swinburne identified a thinly-disguised portrait of himself. By 1881, Wynne was a widow living with an unmarried younger sister. She died in 1905. References: British Census (1881); Cecil Y. Lang, The Yale Edition of the Swinburne Letters (Yale, 1959) Titles:
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