Catherine Reilly (4 April 1925 – 26 September 2005) was a British bibliographer and anthologist of women's poetry of the First and Second World Wars.
Two years before her father died, the family moved to Fallowfield where Reilly attended Hollies Convent FCJ School through a scholarship.
The school was evacuated to Clitheroe in 1939 where Reilly and her sister Eileen lived in a country house on the River Ribble.
[2] After leaving school at the age of 16, she worked in public libraries in Greater Manchester, first in the city and then, from 1974, in Trafford.
She published English Poetry of the Second World War in 1986 which won her the Besterman Medal for Bibliography.