Author: Catherine Elizabeth Tylee
Author: Catherine Elizabeth Tylee (1811–1897)
Alternate Name(s): Mrs. George Tylee (married name)
Biography: Catherine Elizabeth Tylee was born in 1811 in Surrey, the third daughter of Seth Stephen Ward. An earnest Christian, she had Edward Pusey as her spiritual guide. After a correspondence with John Henry Newman, she converted to Roman Catholicism in 1849. In 1857, she married Major-General George Tylee who had converted the year before. Her husband died on 1865 in Rome. As a widow, she wrote two novels: Amy's Wish (1870) and Hurree de Fontenay (1876). She died in 1897 at her home in Clifton, Bristol.
References: British Census (1841; 1871; 1881); Evening Freeman (23 May 1865); Probate; Edward Short, Newman and his Contemporaries (2011); Times (9 August 1897)
Fiction Titles:
- Amy's Wish and What Came of It: A Fairy Tale. 1 vol. London: Griffith and Farran, 1870.
- Hurree de Fontenay: or, All Lost save Honour. A Novel. 3 vol. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876.