Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield

Born in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1816, Catherine Anne Warfield was an American writer of poetry and fiction. She was born Catherine Anne Ware and is often noted alongside her sister, Eleanor Percy Lee, as one of the first published authors in the Percy family.

Her work ranged from poetry to popular fiction, and she became especially known for novels with a dark, dramatic edge. Readers often connect her writing with the antebellum and post–Civil War South, where questions of home, grief, family, and social pressure gave her stories much of their energy.

Although she is less widely read now than she was in her own time, Warfield remains a notable figure in 19th-century American literature, especially in studies of Southern writing and women authors of the period.