Catherine Ann Dorset (née Turner) was a British author of children’s literature. She wrote poetry, most notably The Peacock “At Home” (1807) and The Lion’s Masquerade (1807), which gently satirizes human society and morality through depictions of animal gatherings. She also contributed to Conversations Introducing Poetry (1804), a children’s book primarily written by her sister, Charlotte Smith. Conversations depicts children who observe local flora and fauna with their mother and recite poetry about it, including works by Charlotte Smith and Catherine Dorset as well as by such other well-known figures as Anna Lætitia Barbauld and William Shakespeare. Dorset also published a translation of a French fairy tale, Think Before You Speak (1809), in William Godwin’s Juvenile Library. Dorset had a collaborative though complex relationship with her sister, and she began to publish her work only late in life. Her short-lived literary career primarily contributes to the tradition of animal poetry in English children’s literature.