Surname: Macready Forename(s): Catherine Frances Birch b. 1835. d. 1869. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet. Daughter of William Charles Macready. Alternative signature: “Catherine Frances
B. Macready.” Born in Elstree, Hertfordshire. Author of Leaves From the Olive Mount: Poems (1860), Cowl and Cap; or, The Rival Churches and Minor Poems (1865), and Devotional Lays (1868). Buried at sea after dying on a voyage from Madeira to England. Biographical
information: BL; Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Macready> (28 July 2021); Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 297. (CC)