Katharine S. Macquoid
's prolific writing career (over sixty books, as well as contributions to periodicals) spanned the last four decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. She was chiefly known for her novels or romances (many of them historical) and her travel writing: most notably on France, but also on Italy and Yorkshire. She collaborated with her husband (as illustrator) and later with her son Gilbert (as writer). Her reputation grew steadily until around 1890, charted by increasingly numerous editions in England and the USA, before falling off somewhat, although she was still publishing well into her eighties.
