Kate Lee, born Catharine Anna Spooner (9 March 1859 – 25 July 1904), was an English singer and folksong collector, one of the founders of the Folk-Song Society in 1898.
[4] She sang in a Drury Lane production of Die Walküre in 1894, and had her debut concert the following year.
[1] Lee also collected folksongs, often while bicycling in the countryside, notably from James and Thomas Copper.
[1][6][7] She became the Society's first secretary,[8] but illness soon required that she hand over the work to Lucy Broadwood.
[9] Catharine Anna Spooner married barrister and sugar merchant Arthur Morier Lee (1847–1909) in December 1877.