Catherine Cuthbertson

Catherine Cuthbertson (c. 1775 – June 1842) was an English novelist who was best known for her novel The Romance of the Pyrenees (1803), which was widely popular throughout England.

Cuthbertson's origins are not known, although it appears that she was born before 1780, was the daughter of an army officer, and had at least four siblings.

[6] Cuthbertson has been described by present-day scholars as a "fairly conventional novelist" using "historically realised settings (often in continental Europe)" with "happy endings".

"[8] Romance of the Pyrenees was serialized in the Lady's Magazine, starting in February 1804, but not in book form, "probably because the expected second sale did not warrant the cost."

It took three years and "is the longest novel ever published in an eighteenth-century miscellany, with the single exception of Pamela.