Catherine Winkworth

WINKWORTH, Catherine. b. London, 13 September 1827; d. Monnetier, France, 1 July 1878. She was the daughter of a silk manufacturer, who moved his family to Manchester in 1829. In common with most young women of the time, she had no formal higher education, but studied German with Tobias Theodores (the first teacher of German at Owens College, Manchester, later the University of Manchester) and Logic with James Martineau*. With her sister Selina, she spent the year 1845-46 in Dresden, living with an aunt. Back in Manchester, she and her sisters Susanna and Emily became part of the circle of young intellectuals who were friends of William Gaskell* and his wife Elizabeth, some of whom were...