Catherine Anne Warfield

Catherine Anne Warfield (née Ware) (1816–1877) was an American writer of poetry and fiction in Mississippi.

Born in Natchez, Mississippi in 1816, Catherine was the oldest daughter of Sarah Percy and her second husband Major Nathaniel Ware, who had married in 1814.

[1] Catherine began writing poetry with her younger sister Eleanor at an early age, and it reflects their sadness about their mother's condition.

After Eleanor died of yellow fever in 1849, Warfield ceased writing for several years, as she was stricken with depression.

[3] In the 1830s, Catherine spent her summers in Natchez with her sister and recently relocated mother, who was staying with her son Thomas George Ellis, from her first marriage.

The young woman encounters her grandfather Erastus Bouverie, long presumed dead, living in secret on the second floor.

The two most popular were Ferne Fleming (1877) and its sequel The Cardinal's Daughter (1877); however, no work gained the same degree of success as her first novel.