Crowe

Crowe, MRS CATHERINE (née Stevens), authoress, was born at Borough Green, in Kent, in 1800. In 1822 she married Lieutenant-colonel Crowe, and spent great part of her after-life in Edinburgh. She died in 1876. Her mind was morbid and despondent, ever hovering on the border-line of insanity, which it crossed once in one violent but brief attack. Her translation of Kerner's Seeress of Prevost (1845) prepared the way for her well-known Night Side of Nature (1848), a great collection of supernatural stories, told, indeed, with vigour and verisimilitude, but hopelessly credulous and uncritical. She wrote also tragedies, juvenile books, and novels; of the last, the best, Susan Hopley (1841) and Lilly Dawson (1847). Her Spiritualism and the Age we live in (1859) has no value, save as autobiography.