| Lady Catherine Manning | |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford |
| Occupation: | novelist, as Elizabeth Ironside |
| Spouse: | Sir David Manning |
Lady Catherine Manning is a British writer, who has written five mystery novels under the pseudonym Elizabeth Ironside.
Catherine Manning is the daughter of a general practitioner doctor, and grew up in a Northamptonshire village.[1]
She was educated at University of Oxford, where she earned a bachelor's degree in history, followed by a PhD.[2] [1]
After university, she worked for some time as a teacher, before turning to writing.[1]
As Elizabeth Ironside, she won the Crime Writers' Association Best First Novel Award for her 1985 novel, A Very Private Enterprise.[3] She has also been runner-up for the Crime Writers' Association Golden Dagger.[3] All of her five novels have been published in the UK and the US.[3]
Interviewed by The Daily Telegraph in November 2004, Manning said that she had not been able to publish a new novel for a while because her husband, Sir David Manning, was the British ambassador to the United States, and acting as a hostess for their numerous functions had kept her very busy.[1] She also expressed pleasant surprise, saying that she was "extremely flattered,"" when she found out that in a then recent interview with Time magazine, Laura Bush had said, "I'm having so much fun reading Lady Catherine Manning's mysteries."[1]
She is the wife of Sir David Manning, the former British ambassador to the United States.[1] She met her future husband when they were both history students at the University of Oxford, "I think we met at a lecture."[1] After a few years, they found out that they were unable to have children.[1]