Mary Catherine Rowsell (29 December 1839 – 15 June 1921) was an English novelist, author of children's fiction, and dramatist.
Her education in Belgium and Germany resulted in books based on German folk tales, and on French historical figures.
[note 2] Her mother was Sarah Lewis (c. 1807 – buried 18 August 1897),[7] and her parents were married on 6 June 1829, in St. Nicholas, Brighton, Sussex, England.
[10] Rowsell produced four types of works: books for children (largely based either on folk tales or on historical subjects), novels for adults, plays, and shorter fiction.
[71]: 102 Rowsell contributed, with James Macdonald Oxley and John Alexander Hammerton to The Children's Friend: a Magazine for Boys and Girls at Home and School (London: S. W. Partridge) in 1902 and 1903.