Catherine Wright, whose husband is a great grandson of Anna, has written Anna’s story, and Henry’s, built upon the letters that Anna and others wrote at the time, and on the detailed diaries kept by her four first cousins, the children of her ‘very dear Aunt’.  In doing this she has provided an insight into middle-class life in Victorian Leeds, illustrated by many family photographs. 

Catherine has, for a long time, enjoyed researching the more colourful characters who crop up in family history studies. This, and an abiding interest in the history of papermaking, led her to discovering the rich source of material upon which her book is based.

In addition to the book, Catherine has been a regular contributor for The Quarterly – the journal of the British Association of Paper Historians.  And in a lighter vein, she has given many talks about papermaking and families, in Yorkshire and in County Durham, whose livelihoods were affected by their ability to set up and run papermaking enterprises.