Harriet Diana Thompson

Harriet Diana Thompson, née Calvert (1811–1896) was a Victorian writer, best known for her Life of St Charles Borromeo.

Life

Harriet was born at Humsden, Hertfordshire, the daughter of Nicholson Calvert. She married the Anglican clergyman Edward Healy Thompson. On her husband's conversion to Catholicism she also joined the Catholic Church. She wrote biographies, histories and novels on Catholic subjects, and articles for the Dublin Review. She died at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 21 August 1896.[1]

Writings
  • Mary, Star of the Sea (1848)
  • The Witch of Malton Hill (1850)
  • Mount St. Lawrence (1850)
  • Winefride Jones (1854)
  • Margaret Danvers (1857)
  • The Life of St Charles Borromeo (1858)
  • Bertrand du Guesclin: The Hero of Chivalry (1858)
  • The Tyrolese Patriots of 1809 (1859)
  • The Wyndham Family: A Story of Modern Life (1876)

References
  1. Edwin Burton, "Thompson", in the Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14 (New York, 1912). Accessed 17 Dec. 2016.
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