Catherine Gilpin

Catherine Gilpin belonged to a highly cultivated gentry family. She was the sister of William Gilpin , the well-known writer on the picturesque, whom Susanna's brother Richmond published; she lived at the moated Scaleby Castle...

SB had a lively circle of friends, as her letters show. Early involved in her writing life was Elizabeth Beckwith Fisher , whose name lent itself to such conceits as my Dear Fish gliding away...

After the death of Thomas Graeme SB lived for some years with her now widowed sister in Scotland. Later still she lived with her friend Catherine Gilpin at 14 Finkle Street, Carlisle.

Miss Gilpin's Song, written by SB for Catherine Gilpin to sing at her spinning-wheel, combines a dark vision of individual life as a spun thread (A breath can destroy what's so slenderly made...

Another edition of SB 's work was produced by Sidney Gilpin (pseudonym of George Coward) as Songs and Poems Together with Songs by Her Friend Miss Gilpin

It must be remembered that, in a manner fitting the ballad tradition of unascribed authorship, SB and Catherine Gilpin often composed poetry together, and that Gilpin , as well as Blamire, sometimes composed alone. The...