Idylls of Womanhood

Catherine Amy Dawson Scott was born in Dulwich, London on an unknown date in August 1865. Her mother died when she was 11 and the following year her father remarried, and the family found itself in nearby Camberwell. Catherine later graduated from the Anglo German College. At 18, she began work as a secretary. She had literary ambitions and soon set to work writing ‘Charades For Home Acting’. An epic 210 page poem ‘Sappho’, was published the following year and then ‘Idylls of Womanhood’ in 1892.