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Catherine Leigh Joynes Salt (8 February 1857 – 16 February 1919) was a British author, who wrote studies of Shelley, De Quincey, and Richard Jefferies.

Life
Catherine Leigh Joynes was born at Eton on 8 February 1857, the daughter of Elizabeth Johanne Unger, and the Reverend James Leigh Joynes, a master at Eton.

On 22 December 1879, she married Henry S. Salt. Salt's friend, George Bernard Shaw, wrote that the marriage was never consummated, and Catherine had a number of affairs with women. Like Salt, she was active in the Socialist and Labour movement.

Edward Carpenter described her as "highly musical; and her literary gift was certainly one of the most remarkable I have known — though unfortunately, except in her letters, rarely utilized."

Catherine died on 16 February 1919, Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire.1919.