Katherine Austen

Katherine Austen
Born1629 (1629)
St Mary Colechurch, London, England
Died1683 (aged 53–54)
Hoxton, London
OccupationsWriter, financier
SpouseThomas Austen

Katherine Austen (née Wilson; 1629 – c. 1683) was an English diarist and poet best known for Book M, her manuscript collection of meditations, journal entries, and verse. "On the Situation of Highbury" (1665), a country house poem included in the collection, has received particular attention from scholars. She was also a successful financier and landowner, a status she achieved and maintained by remaining a widow for twenty-five years.

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