Catherine Hutton

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Catherine Hutton (11 February 1756 – 13 March 1846) was an English novelist and letter-writer.

Born in Birmingham, the daughter of historian William Hutton, Hutton became a friend of the scientist and discoverer of oxygen Joseph Priestley and the novelist Robert Bage. A keen letter-writer, she corresponded with, among others, Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton and her mathematician cousin Charles Hutton.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Mitchell|first=Rosemary|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|title=Hutton, Catherine (1756–1846)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14299|accessdate=2008-02-21|edition=Online|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/14299 |url-access=subscription}} She built up a collection of over two thousand letters, some of which were published after her death.{{cite web|url=http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/hutton.htm|title=Catherine Hutton|accessdate=2008-02-21|date=2004-03-11|work=Literary Heritage West Midlands|publisher=Shropshire County Council|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614174607/http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/hutton.htm|archivedate=2012-06-14}}

Hutton published a number of novels including The Miser Married: a Novel (1813) - itself partly written as a series of letters - The Welsh Mountaineer (1817) and Oakwood Hall (1819). She also wrote a history of the Queens of England and numerous pieces of journalism.