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.”

REFERENCES TO Catherine Clarkson [née Buck]:

Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth [9 July 1803] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 19 February 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth [7 May 1805] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth [14 June 1805] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 28 September 1805 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth 26 June 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth [29 August 1806] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

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

Charles Lamb to Henry Crabb Robinson, 12 March 1808 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)

Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, [30 March 1810] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth, 13 November 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Thomas Robinson, 11 November 1822 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)