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Catherine Pollok was born in Grittleton in Wiltshire in 1778.
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Catherine Stepney
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He was a groom of the bed-chamber to the Duke of York and he died without issue in 1825. Stepney is credited with writing six novels, but Mary Mitford claimed that Stepney"s drafts were honed and polished by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Stepney was known as a hostess because her house was a meeting place for London"s artistic and literary society.
In 1836 she modelled for a bust by Richard Cockle Lucas who portrayed her as Cleopatra.
This bust is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The National Portrait Gallery has a painting of her made by John Hayter.
Stepney died in London in 1845. After her death there were accounts of how Stepney was unaware of the regard that her novels sometimes did not enjoy.
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