An abolitionist who married Thomas Clarkson in 1796 and became a close friend of Dorothy Wordsworth. Charles Lamb described her as “one of the friendliest, comfortablest women we know.”

CORRESPONDENCE OF Catherine Clarkson [née Buck]:

Charles Lamb to Thomas and Catherine Clarkson, June 1807 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Mary and Charles Lamb to Catherine Clarkson [10 December 1808] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)