Swinburne reshapes his grand passion: a version by 'Ashford Owen.' (Algernon Charles Swinburne)

'The Story of Catherine' by Annie Charlotte Ogle may support the scholars who believe Algernon Charles Swinburne's first cousin Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon Leith was Swinburne's lost love. Correspondence between Swinburne and Mary Louisa Molesworth revealed Swinburne's involvement in Ogle's writing and the story is a close parallel of Leith's life. The novel clearly shows Swinburne's involvement because it includes his philosophies of life and art as well as period of his life.