Catherine Owen

Catherine Owen (died 1889) was a well-known 19th-century American writer on domestic economy and cookery who was long active in the United States. She was an early contributor to Good Housekeeping and published under the name Catherine Owen. Three of her works are held here: Culture and Cooking, Choice Cookery, and Ten Dollars Enough: Keeping House Well on Ten Dollars a Week. These works deal with kitchen technique, everyday food, and household economy; they argue that cooking is an art worth studying and advocate women's economic self-reliance through skilled household management. Public information on her family background, early life, and education is limited, and her influence lies chiefly in domestic writing and in spreading ideas about women's lives at the time.