Catherine Hutton Catherine Hutton Catherine Hutton (11 February 1756 – 13 March 1846) was an English novelist and letter-writer. Born in Birmingham, the daughter of historian William Hutton, Hutton became a friend of the scientist and discoverer of oxygen Joseph Priestley and the novelist Robert Bage. A keen letter-writer, she corresponded with, among others, Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton and her mathematician cousin Charles Hutton. She built up a collection of over two thousand letters, some of which were published after her death. Hutton published a number of novels including "The Miser Married: a Novel" (1813) - itself partly written as a series
Ann Hogarth Ann Hogarth Margaret Ann Gildart Jackson (19 July 1910 – 9 April 1993) better known as Ann Hogarth (married name Margaret Ann Gildart Bussell) was a leading British puppeteer. She, her husband and "Hogarth Puppets" toured the world. She is best known for her puppet Muffin the Mule, which was one of the first stars of early BBC televeision in the 1940s and 1950s. She and her husband created a large collection of puppets Hogarth was born to Olive Mary (née Howle) and William Gildart Jackson who had been a school teacher. She was born the fourth of five children