Katharine Dorothea Ewart (November 26, 1870 – May 21, 1956) was a British historian and author of books on Italian history.
After her father's death, her widowed mother settled in Bristol where Dorothea was educated at Clifton High School for Girls.
She won a Clothworkers' scholarship at Somerville College, Oxford, where she took first-class honours in modern history in 1893.
[1][3] Her first work was a biography of Cosimo de' Medici published in 1899 as part of Macmillan's Foreign Statesmen Series.
[4] In 1909 she published a survey of Italian history entitled Italy 1494–1790, part of the Cambridge Historical Series,[5] which was reviewed as a welcome contribution to the subject.