Catherine Grace Godwin (25 December 1798 – 1845) was a Scottish novelist, amateur painter and poet.

Her father, Dr. Thomas Garnett, devastated by the loss of his wife died in 1802.

[4] Godwin and her elder sister were brought up by a friend of their mother, Mary Worboys, in the village of Barbon near Kirkby Lonsdale in Westmorland.

[3] She began painting and writing poetry in earnest when she was fifteen but she did not publish any work until 1824.

The book allowed her to become a correspondent and eventually meet William Wordsworth.