Katherine Saunders (or Katharine;[1] later, Katherine Cooper; 1841-1894) was an English novelist of the Victorian era.

Saunders published fiction during the 1870s and 1880s. The eldest daughter of the writer John Saunders, she had 11 siblings. Saunders co-wrote the book Martin Pole (1863) with her father.

Saunders married the Rev. Richard Cooper in 1876.[2][3]

Selected works

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  • Martin Pole (1863) (with John Saunders)
  • The Haunted Crust (1871)
  • Margaret and Elisabeth: a Story of the Sea (1873)
  • Joan Merry weather, and other Tales (1874)
  • Gideon's Rock, and other Tales (1874)
  • The High Mills (1875)
  • Sebastian: a Novel (1878)
  • Heart Salvage by Sea and Land (1884)
  • Nearly in Port; or, Phoebe Mustyn's Life-Story (1886)
  • Diamonds in Darkness: a Christmas Story (1838)

References

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  1. ^ Houghton, Walter Edwards; Slingerland, Jean Harris (January 1989). The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824–1900. University of Toronto Press. pp. 176–. ISBN 978-0-8020-2688-0.
  2. ^ Sutherland, John (13 October 2014). The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Routledge. pp. 562–. ISBN 978-1-317-86333-5.
  3. ^ Allibone, Samuel Austin; Kirk, John Foster (1897). A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors: Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century : Containing Over Forty-six Thousand Articles (authors), with Forty Indexes of Subjects (Public domain ed.). J.B. Lippincott. pp. 384–.