b. 6 December 1786. d. 20 July 1854. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and illustrator. Née Bowles. Pseudonym “C” and “Baroness de Katzleben.” Born
near Lymington, Hampshire into a bilingual French and English home. Educated at the
local vicarage. Supported herself by writing after the death of her parents in 1817.
Contributed to magazines and illustrated several of her own publications. Married
poet laureate Robert Southey on 5 June 1839, with whom she had begun corresponding
in 1818. Friends with Anna Eliza Bray, Maria Jane Jewsbury, William Wordsworth, and
Mary Howitt. Biographical information: *Orlando*. (AC, CC)