Cornelia Mee was a nineteenth-century British knitting author known for compiling and circulating patterns for knitting, crochet, and lace. Her representative work, Exercises in Knitting, gathered a variety of stitches and handcraft techniques for a growing readership of domestic needleworkers. Besides that book, she published several manuals of knitting, crochet, and lace patterns, characterized by clear stitch instructions and workable designs, reflecting a practical style meant to be followed directly. Public information about her life is limited: her birth and death years, education, and personal history are not reliably recorded, and the library holds only one of her works. Nevertheless, her pattern manuals occupy a place in the nineteenth-century British tradition of craft publishing and offer a useful textual reference for later understanding of the knitting techniques and pattern circulation of the period.
