Catherine Anne Warfield met with strong reception. After the Civil War, Warfield published eight more novels, all under her own name. The two most popular were "Ferne Fleming" (1877) and its sequel "The Cardinal's Daughter" (1877); however, no work gained the same degree of success as her first novel. She died in 1877. Walker Percy's novel "Lancelot" bears a resemblance to "The Household of Bouverie." Despite Walker's disclaimer, both the Percy biographer Bertram Wyatt-Brown and his nephew William Armstrong Percy, III believe that he based the novel, so different from his others, on his predecessor's work. Catherine Anne Warfield Catherine Anne Warfield (née
Katherine Anne Porter stairs, breaking her ankle. They divorced officially in 1915. In 1914 she escaped to Chicago, where she worked briefly as an extra in movies. She then returned to Texas and worked the small-town entertainment circuit as an actress and singer. In 1915, she asked that her name be changed to Katherine Anne Porter as part of her divorce decree. Also in 1915, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent the following two years in sanatoria, where she decided to become a writer. It was discovered during that time, however, that she had bronchitis, not TB. In 1917, she began writing