Catherine Hutton, an intelligent and active lifelong singleton, though not hugely famous, was a well-connected and well-regarded writer who worked across many genres. Her copious production included dozens of publications, thousands of letters, and a great deal of manuscript and annotated work; she was also proud of her skillful needlework. More a periodicalist than a poet, Hutton nonetheless exhibited a bright independent streak, writing positively of such uncommon subjects as single women and the beauties of Wales. Author of 12 book-length volumes, dozens of periodical pieces, and creator of a patchwork quilt that required (by her own reckoning) 1994 pieces, Hutton was a woman who developed many interests across her near-century of life. She ran her father’s household and sewed and embroidered with skill. She collected both images of costumes and autographs. She was a journal writer, an editor, a travel writer, musical transcriber, novelist, essayist, and the author of an illustrated manuscript history of English queens. (Her History of the Queens of England, Consort and Regnant, from the Norman Conquest appears to be lost, but it is referenced in her obituary.) Hutton’s copious letters and travel writing have made her of occasional interest to historians; modern literary scholars have taken little notice of her three at-the-time-unfashionably epistolary novels. Periodicalists understand her as an example of how Romantic-era women writers could spend a productive lifetime in the gray area between professional and private artist.