Katharine

Katharine or Katherine. For some persons thus named, use Catherine.

Katharine,
1. a character in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost;

2. in his Henry V, the daughter of the king of France.

Katharine Walton, a Revolutionary Romance by Simms, published in 1851, is a sequel to The Partisan.

Shortly after the Battle of Camden (1780), Katharine's father, Colonel Walton, is rescued from his captivity in the British garrison at Dorchester by her fiancé, Robert Singleton. Colonel Balfour, commandant at Charleston, to avoid responsibility for the loss of a prisoner, accuses Major Proctor, guard of the garrison, of treason. Walton's estates are confiscated and at Balfour's order Katharine is taken to Charleston. Singleton, disguising himself as Captain Furness, a Loyalist, becomes a friend of Proctor, revealing Balfour's treachery to him. Meanwhile Walton is again captured, and Balfour tells Katharine that if she does not marry him her father will be hanged. Proctor, having killed Balfour's henchman Vaughan, joins Singleton's rebels, among whom is the comic Captain Porgy. Before they can rescue the Waltons, Katharine agrees to marry Balfour, whose order to reprieve her father is intercepted by Balfour's former sweetheart. Since Walton is hanged, Katharine is freed from her promise to wed Balfour.