Katherine Aurora "Kitty" Kirkpatrick was born in India to James Achilles Kirkpatrick, British Resident in Hyderabad, and Khair-un-Nissa, a Hyderabadi noblewoman, but lived most of her life in England.
Background
Kitty Kirkpatrick was born Noor un-Nissa, Sahib Begum, at Hyderabad. In 1805, the year of her father"s death, she and her elder brother Mir Ghulam Ali, Sahib Allum, were sent to live with their grandfather Colonel James Kirkpatrick, in London and Keston, Kent, leaving their mother in India.
Career
She was for a few years the love interest of the Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. Kitty was "brought up as a Victorian lady – grew into a famous beauty, immortalised by Thomas Carlyle in his novel Sartor Resartus". lieutenant is believed that she was the inspiration for the Calypso-like Blumine, one of the characters of Carlyle"s book
Although they never saw each other again, the two women corresponded regularly for six years.
Kitty Phillips died in Torquay, Devon, in 1889.