Kate Percival

Very little verified biographical information is readily available about the author published as Kate Percival. Reliable catalog and title records confirm that Kate Percival appeared in 1886 as part of Arrowsmith's Bristol Library, which places the work in the world of popular Victorian fiction.

Some library and research records associate the name Kate Percival with Alice Vansittart Carr. Because the surviving evidence visible here is limited, that identification should be treated with a little caution, but it suggests a connection to the wider literary and theatrical circles of late-Victorian Britain.

For modern readers, the interest of this author lies partly in that air of mystery: a novelist who left only a faint archival trace, yet still survives through catalogues, circulating-library records, and the enduring curiosity of readers drawn to forgotten nineteenth-century books.