# Catherine Stepney
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{{Short description|British novelist}}
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| image = Lady Catherine Stepney by Richard Cockle Lucas.JPG
| caption = Lady Catherine Stepney by [Richard Cockle Lucas](/source/Richard_Cockle_Lucas)
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1778|12|23|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Grittleton](/source/Grittleton)
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| death_place = London
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| other_names = Catherine Manners
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'''Catherine Stepney''' (23 December 1778 – 14 April 1845) was a British novelist.
==Life==
Catherine Pollok was born in [Grittleton](/source/Grittleton), Wiltshire in 1778. Her first husband was [Russell Manners](/source/Russell_Manners_(MP)), whom she divorced. In 1813 she married Sir Thomas Stepney who was the ninth and as it turned out the last [Stepney baronet](/source/Stepney_baronets), of [Prendergast](/source/Haverfordwest). He was a [groom of the bed-chamber](/source/groom_of_the_bed-chamber) to the [Duke of York](/source/Duke_of_York) and he died without issue in 1825.
Stepney is credited with writing six novels, but [Mary Mitford](/source/Mary_Mitford) claimed that Stepney's drafts were honed and polished by [Letitia Elizabeth Landon](/source/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon).[{{cite web | url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stepney,_Catherine_(DNB00) | title=wikisource biography | volume=54 | accessdate=19 February 2016}}]
Stepney was known as a hostess because her house was a meeting place for London's artistic and literary society.[ In 1836 she modelled for a bust by [Richard Cockle Lucas](/source/Richard_Cockle_Lucas) who portrayed her as [Cleopatra](/source/Cleopatra). This bust is now in the [Victoria and Albert Museum](/source/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum).][[https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O66222/catherine-lady-stepney-d-1845-bust-lucas-richard-cockle/ Catherine, Lady Stepney (d. 1845) as Cleopatra], Richard Cockle Lucas, retrieved 4 December 2014] The National Portrait Gallery has a painting of her made by [John Hayter](/source/John_Hayter).[[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp05779/catherine-neacutee-pollok-lady-stepney?search=sas&sText=catherine+stepney Catherine Stepney], John Hayter, National Portrait Gallery, London]
Stepney died in London on 14 April 1845.[[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26403?docPos=2 Catherine Stepney], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, retrieved 5 December 2014][{{cite magazine |title=Lady Stepney |magazine=The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Review |date=July 1845 |page=86 |id={{ProQuest|8339506}}}}] She was buried in the catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery, London. After her death there were accounts of how she was unaware that her novels were not always well regarded.[[http://lordbyron.cath.lib.vt.edu/doc.php?choose=HoSmith.1847.GG6.xml#HS-23 A greybeard's gossip about his literary acquaintance], New Monthly Magazine, Volume 80, 1847]
==Bibliography==
===Catherine Manners===
* ''Castle Nuovier; or, Henrii and Adelina'', Catherine Manners, 1806[{{cite book |author=Mrs. Manners |title=Castle Nuovier; or, Henrii and Adelina. A Romance. In Two Volumes. |location=London |publisher=Printed for B. Crosby and Co. |date=1806 |id={{Gale|LCSAJK931860164}}}}][{{cite magazine |title=''Castle Nuovier; or, Henrii and Adelina'' |department=Review |magazine=Literary Journal |volume=1 |issue=6 |date=June 1806 |pages=671–672 |id={{ProQuest|6029078}}}}] (alternatively titled ''Castle Nuovier, or, Henry and Adelina'')