Catherine Anne Warfield at the age of sixteen, Catherine married Robert Elisha Warfield, a son of the prominent Lexington, Kentucky physician and Thoroughbred breeder, Elisha Warfield. The couple settled in his Kentucky home, where they had six children together. After their mother's death, the sisters next suffered the death in 1844 of their half-sister Mary Jane Ellis LaRoche (who appeared to have suffered from post-partum depression and lingering mental illness for several years) and later their half-brother Thomas Ellis. After Eleanor died of yellow fever in 1849, Warfield ceased writing for several years, as she was stricken with depression. In the 1830s, Catherine
The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Delacorte Press in 1970. The anthology includes critical, personal, and biographical essays; three sections of an unfinished work about Cotton Mather; book reviews; letters; and poems. "The Collected Essays", in addition to containing seventeen pieces, includes all thirty-two essays published in "The Days Before" in 1952. Like "The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter" and "The Never-Ending Wrong", it consists of work Porter had written prior to her long novel "Ship