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 In 1977, Porter published "The Never-Ending Wrong", an account of the notorious trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, which she had protested 50 years earlier. Porter died in Silver Spring, Maryland, on September 18, 1980, at the age of 90, and her ashes were buried next to her mother at Indian Creek Cemetery in Texas. In 1990, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 2905 was placed in Brown County, Texas, to honor the life and career of Porter. Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist,