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Catherine Long was the youngest daughter of Horatio Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford, and his wife Sophia Churchill.
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She engaged in much literary work, chiefly in the way of religious fiction, and published some pieces of sacred music Long"s first work, Sir Roland Ashton, a Tale of the Times, was a religious novel directed against the tractarian movement. Stevens notes that Long reflected on contemporary concerns about the morality and aesthetics of the use of the novel form for religious subject-matter in her preface to the book, but notes that "Long"s notion of novel writing being "in God"s hands" with the author as a kind of amanuensis, was one that was becoming increasingly familiar as the century wore on".
