# Catherine Tobin > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Catherine_Tobin > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Catherine_Tobin.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Tobin > Source revision: 1274133348 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Author and translator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox writer | name = Catherine Ellis Tobin | image = File:Lady Tobin and Sir Thomas Tobin.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Lady Tobin and Sir Thomas Tobin | birth_name = Catherine Ellis | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 1903 | death_place = | occupation = Writer | nationality = Irish | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | magnum_opus = | influences = | influenced = | website = | footnotes = }}'''Catherine Tobin''' (died 1903) was a [Victorian era](/source/Victorian_era) author and artist who travelled with her husband and wrote books around the experiences as well as a translator for a book on the area.{{cite book|author=Sir H. A. R. Gibb|title=The Encyclopaedia of Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJQ3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA68|year=1980|publisher=Brill Archive|pages=68–|id=GGKEY:1FSD5PNQ2DE}} ==Life== Born Catherine Ellis, daughter of Lister Ellis of Crofthead, [Cumberland](/source/Cumberland) she married [Thomas Tobin](/source/Thomas_Tobin) on 12 September 1835. She had one son, Arthur Lionel Tobin who was born when they lived in [Ballincollig](/source/Ballincollig), County Cork. He died as a young man, injured in battle. Though the family lived in a few houses in Cork their main residence was [Oriel House](/source/Oriel_House). However Tobin and her husband shared an interest in travel and antiquities and spent considerable time in the middle and near east. She wrote a number of books due to this interest and travel as well as translating another. At home in Cork, Tobin was a patron of the [South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital](/source/South_Infirmary_Victoria_University_Hospital) for many years.{{cite web|title=Western Women Travelling East, 1716-1916 |first=Penelope |last=Tuson |date=2014 |url=http://www.arcadian-library.com/study-series-no-10.php |website=Arcadian Library |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225081902/http://www.arcadian-library.com/study-series-no-10.php |archive-date=February 25, 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=February 5, 2025}}{{cite news |title=From palm oil to gunpowder: a Cork dynasty was born |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/from-palm-oil-to-gunpowder-a-cork-dynasty-was-born-1.1280042 |work=The Irish Times}} George Kelleher has suggested that while Thomas Tobin was an "antiquarian and curio collector in the spirit of the Victorian age", his wife Catherine, "was a far more considerable cultural figure". Her work has served as the basis for a number of studies about the regions.{{cite web |title=Gunpowder plot |url=http://ihai.ie/wp-content/uploads/IHAInewsJul2006.pdf |publisher=Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland Newsletter}}{{Cite journal|jstor = 4282757|title = The Population of Palestine, circa 1875|journal = Middle Eastern Studies|volume = 15|issue = 3|pages = 310–321|last1 = Gottheil|first1 = Fred M|year = 1979|doi = 10.1080/00263207908700414}}{{cite book|author=Brian Stoddart|title=A House In Damascus - Before The Fall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gf0jBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT226|date=1 October 2012|isbn=978-1-61417-356-4|pages=226–}}{{cite book|author=Churnjeet Mahn|title=British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840–1914: Travels in the Palimpsest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aI0GDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA145|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-17128-7|pages=145–}}{{cite book|author=Ziba Rashidian|title=Representing the Modern Animal in Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yH-oBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT52|date=2 October 2014|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=978-1-137-42865-3|pages=52–}}{{cite book|title=Ethnologia Balkanica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ogSzrXJEfMC&pg=PA193|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|pages=193–|id=GGKEY:YSKSU07QZDQ}}{{cite book|author1=Deborah Manley|author2=Sahar Abdel-Hakim|title=Traveling through Sinai: From the Fourth to the Twenty-first Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WRiWBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT30|date=3 January 2009|publisher=American University of Cairo Press|isbn=978-1-61797-540-0|pages=30–}} Originally from the UK, when her husband died, Tobin moved first to Albert House Mansion in [London](/source/London) and then to Eastham House in [Cheshire](/source/Cheshire), where her brother in law James Aspinall Tobin lived. She died there on 23 April 1903. ==Bibliography== * {{cite book|title=Shadows of the East, Or, Slight Sketches of Scenery, Persons, and Customs: From Observations During a Tour in 1853 and 1854, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZI6BOwAACAAJ|year=1855|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans}} * {{cite book|title=The Land of Inheritance|publisher=Quaritch, London |year=1863|url=https://archive.org/details/landofinheritanc00tobi}} * {{cite book|title=Illustration of Discoveries at Nineveh|url=https://archive.org/details/mbottasletterso01bottgoog/page/n9|year=1850|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans}} by [Paul-Émile Botta](/source/Paul-%C3%89mile_Botta) (Trans.) ==Gallery== Pictures from Tobin's 1855 book: File:TOBIN(1855)_p215_DAMASCUS_GATE_-_JERUSALEM.jpg|[Damascus Gate](/source/Damascus_Gate) File:TOBIN(1855)_p223_CRYPT_OF_THE_HOLY_SEPULGHRE,_JERUSALEM.jpg|[Chapel of Saint Helena, Jerusalem](/source/Chapel_of_Saint_Helena%2C_Jerusalem) File:TOBIN(1855)_p261_MOUNT_TABOR.jpg|[Mount Tabor](/source/Mount_Tabor) File:TOBIN(1855)_p167_SHEIKH_ON_THE_DESERT.jpg|[Sheikh](/source/Sheikh) of the desert File:TOBIN(1855)_p145_THE_CONVENT_MOUNT_SINANI.jpg|[Saint Catherine's Monastery](/source/Saint_Catherine's_Monastery) File:TOBIN(1855)_p153_INTERIOR_OF_THE_CONVENT_MOUNT_SINAI.jpg|[Saint Catherine's Monastery](/source/Saint_Catherine's_Monastery) File:TOBIN(1855) p285 RUINS OF EASTERN PORTICO OF BAALBEC.jpg|[Baalbek](/source/Baalbek) [David Roberts](/source/David_Roberts_(painter)) views in 1839, published in ''[The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia](/source/The_Holy_Land%2C_Syria%2C_Idumea%2C_Arabia%2C_Egypt%2C_and_Nubia)'': File:Groups_of_figures_outside_the_Damascus_gate,_Jerusalem._Colo_Wellcome_V0049393.jpg|[Damascus Gate](/source/Damascus_Gate) File:Crypt_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre_Jerusalem_LCCN2002717468_(cropped).tif|[Chapel of Saint Helena, Jerusalem](/source/Chapel_of_Saint_Helena%2C_Jerusalem) File:David_Roberts_-_Mount_Tabor_from_the_Plain_of_Esdraelon_-_1927.114_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif|[Mount Tabor](/source/Mount_Tabor) File:Roberts%26Haghe_Arabs_of_the_Tribe_of_the_Benisaid_Feby_17th_1839.jpg|[Sheikh](/source/Sheikh) of the desert File:David_Roberts_-_Convent_of_St._Catherine_with_Mount_Horeb_-_1927.90_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.jpg|[Saint Catherine's Monastery](/source/Saint_Catherine's_Monastery) File:Six-volume_‘The_Holy_Land’_by_David_Roberts.jpg|[Saint Catherine's Monastery](/source/Saint_Catherine's_Monastery) File:David Roberts - Ruins of the Eastern Portico of the Temple of Baalbec - 1927.82 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif|[Baalbek](/source/Baalbek) ==References== {{Reflist}} == External links == * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Catherine Tobin}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tobin, Catherine}} Category:1903 deaths Category:British women writers Category:British women artists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Catherine Tobin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Tobin) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Tobin?action=history)). 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