Catherine Dorothea Burdett

She was born Catherine Dorothea Browne in Dublin, 1784, to Frances Corry, who was sister to the MP Isaac Corry, and her husband Col. William Browne of Glengarry, who served in the American Revolutionary War.{{cite web |url=http://thepeerage.com/p36058.htm#i360577 |title=The Peerage}} Her father worked in Ireland as an Army recruitment agent and when he died in 1813, Burdett ended in a legal case brought by the government against her father's estate looking for an account of his finances. The case continued on for over 10 years.

She married widower Capt. George Burdett, R. N., of Longtown House, County Kildare in 1806. He had served in the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.{{cite web |url=http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=1121 |title=Author Information: Catherine Dorothea Burdett}}{{cite news |newspaper=The Freeman's Journal |title=Article |location=Dublin, Ireland |date=11 November 1858}}{{cite book |title=The Gentleman's Magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UBDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA473 |year=1818 |publisher=R. Newton |pages=473–}}{{cite book |title=Parliamentary Papers |url=https://archive.org/details/parliamentarypa27commgoog |year=1826 |publisher=H. M. Stationery Office |pages=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentarypa27commgoog/page/n241 123]–}}{{cite book |author=George Dames Burtchaell |title=Genealogical memoirs of the members of Parliament for the county and city of Kilkenny... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gH_UAAAAMAAJ |year=1888 |publisher=Sealy, Bryers & Walker}} They had a son George and two daughters, Frances Elizabeth and Catherine Jane.{{cite book |author=John Burke |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Or, Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Etc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VxdVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA404 |year=1838 |publisher=Henry Colburn |pages=404–}}{{cite book |author=Bernard Burke |title=A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIcTAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA224 |year=1906 |publisher=Рипол Классик |isbn=978-5-88372-227-0 |pages=224–}}{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhera01byuburk#page/224/mode/2up|title=A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |author=Sir Bernard Burke |date=1879 |publisher=London, Harrison}}

Burdett published her first novel in 1827 and continued writing books which were largely based on her own experiences. Her books were published as written by Mrs C. D. Burdett. Her husband was killed unexpectedly when a chemist's assistant mistakenly mislabelled oil of tar as his prescription in 1832. She herself died while visiting Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in 1861.{{cite web |url=http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014884/005014884_00027.pdf |title=Will of CD Burdett}}{{cite book |author=Edward Copeland |title=The Silver Fork Novel: Fashionable Fiction in the Age of Reform |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3T0xSDJv-1MC&pg=PA65 |date=21 June 2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-51333-3 |pages=65–}}{{cite book |title=The New Monthly Magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_jIaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA498 |year=1846 |pages=498–}}{{cite book |author1=Edward Cave |author2=John Nichols |title=The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rDwDw0HkYPkC&pg=PA563 |year=1832 |publisher=Edw. Cave |pages=563–}}

• {{cite book |title=English Fashionables Abroad: A Novel |url=https://archive.org/details/englishfashionab01burd |year=1827 |publisher=H. Colburn}}
• {{cite book |title=At Home: A Novel |url=https://archive.org/details/athomenovel03burd |year=1828 |publisher=H. Colburn}}
• {{cite book |title=Walter Hamilton Volume 3; A Novel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Se5tgAACAAJ |date=9 February 2012 |publisher=General Books |isbn=978-1-235-83194-2}}
• {{cite book |title=High Life: A Novel |url=https://archive.org/details/highlifenovel03burd |year=1827 |publisher=Saunders and Otley |pages=[https://archive.org/details/highlifenovel03burd/page/7 7]–}}
• A Year and a Day

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