About Catherine
Catherine Beale is a writer and historian. She has written for Garden History, Hortus, Country Landowner, and the Hereford Times. She researched and wrote the guide book for Hampton Court, Herefordshire, when the gardens opened in 2000 and she co-wrote, with David Wheeler, the garden guide in 2009. She was involved in the restoration of the award-winning Judge’s Lodging, Presteigne.
Catherine is the daughter of a Herefordshire farmer and lives on the Welsh border. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, and after graduating from Cambridge University she worked in textiles, including, for a while, Sir Richard Arkwright & Co in Derbyshire. She is married and has one daughter.
Her first book, Champagne and Shambles: the Arkwrights and the Downfall of the Landed Aristocracy was published by Sutton Publishing (now The History Press) in 2006. It sold out in hardback and was published in paperback in November 2009 as Champagne and Shambles: the Arkwrights and the Country House in Crisis.
Catherine Beale’s literary agent is Caroline Davidson Literary Agency, London (www.cdla.co.uk).
If you would like to order any of Catherine's published books or journals please email: emailcbeale@gmail.com.