CATHERINE CROWE
\kˈaθɹɪn kɹˈə͡ʊ], \kˈaθɹɪn kɹˈəʊ], \k_ˈa_θ_ɹ_ɪ_n k_ɹ_ˈəʊ]\
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An English story-teller; born (Stevens) at Borough Green, Kent, about 1800; died 1876. She made her first essay with a tragedy, "Aristodemus,\" and then turned to prose fiction. "Lily Dawson" (1847) is regarded as the best of her novels. She became an ardent devotee of spiritualism and animal magnetism, and in 1852 published her most notable work, "The Night Side of Nature" (2 vols., 1852).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.