Catherine A. Warfield

Catherine A. Warfield
Catherine A. Warfield (1816–1877) was an American novelist and poet, known for her contributions to Southern Gothic literature. Born in Mississippi, she often explored themes of romance, mystery, and the supernatural in her works. Her most famous novels include "The Household of Bouverie" (1860) and "The Romance of Beauseincourt" (1867), both of which delve into the lives and struggles of Southern aristocracy. Warfield, along with her sister Eleanor Percy Lee, also wrote poetry under the pen name "The Two Sisters of the West."

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It was a calm and hazy morning of Southern summer that on which I turned my face seaward from the "keep" of Beauseincourt, never, I knew, to see its time-stained walls again, save through the mirage of memory. There is an awe almost as solemn to me in a consciousness like this as that which attends the death-bed parting, and my straining eye takes in its last look of a familiar scene as it... more...

CHAPTER I. My father, Reginald Monfort, was an English gentleman of good family, who, on his marriage with a Jewish lady of wealth and refinement, emigrated to America, rather than subject her and himself to the commentaries of his own fastidious relatives, and the incivilities of a clique to which by allegiance of birth and breeding he unfortunately belonged. Her own family had not been less averse to... more...