Catherine Anne Warfield Catherine Anne Warfield Catherine Anne Warfield (née Ware) (1816–1877) was an American writer of poetry and fiction in Mississippi. Together with her sister Eleanor Percy Lee, she was first of the published authors in the Percy family. Its most noted authors have been William Alexander Percy and Walker Percy of the twentieth century. Warfield's first novel "The Household of Bouverie" (1860), published anonymously, was very popular; and she published eight more under her own name. Born in Natchez, Mississippi in 1816, Catherine was the oldest daughter of Sarah Percy and her second husband Major Nathaniel Ware, who had married in
Anne Jane Cupples Scott. On 18 May 1858, Anne, aged 19, married George Cupples, a respected literary figure and breeder of Scotch deerhounds, aged 36. In 1859, her father died at the age of 55, and her widowed mother continued as planned to New Zealand, where she established a small school at Pelichet Bay, near Dunedin. Anne Jane remained in Scotland, along with a brother, who later travelled to New Zealand. Mrs Cupples' first book to be published appears to be "Unexpected Pleasures or, Left Alone in the Holidays", published by W.P. Nimmo, Edinburgh in 1868. This book was published when Ann Jane