Catherine Isabella Barmby

Catherine Isabella Barmby
BornCatherine Isabella Watkins
1816/17
Died(1853-12-26)26 December 1853
Topsham, Devon, England
Pen nameKate
OccupationWriter
Spouse
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(m. 1841)​

Catherine Isabella "Kate" Barmby (née Watkins; 1816/1817 – 26 December 1853) was an English utopian socialist and writer on women's emancipation. She was the daughter of Bridstock Watkins and belonged to the lower-middle class. Little is known of her early life or education, but her instruction allowed her to become a writer and lecturer. She wrote several articles for the Owenite socialist newspaper New Moral World on feminist demands and her Millennialist beliefs.[1] She was married to the socialist Goodwyn Barmby.

  1. ^ "Oxford DNB article: Barmby, Catherine Isabella". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/41339. Retrieved 8 March 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)