Catherine Ostler

About The Author

Catherine Ostler is an author and journalist who has been Editor-in-Chief of Tatler, the English Standard (London), the Evening Standard magazine (London), and Editor of The Times (London) Weekend. She has also written for a wide range of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph (London), the Financial Times, and Vogue. She studied English at Oxford University. Her first book was the critically acclaimed The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London.

Appearances

OCT 21

11:00AM

In Person

Catherine Ostler

Catherine Ostler will join the opening luncheon of the Women’s Leadership Forum at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History.

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Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish Histor

101 S Independence Mall E

Philadelphia, PA 19106

NOV 12

12:00AM

In Person

Catherine Ostler

Catherine Ostler, historian, journalist and former editor of Tatler UK, presents New York Times best-selling The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War and Betrayal. Immortalized as children in impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s famou

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Charleston Literary Festival

Dock Street Theatre

135 Church Street

Charleston, SC 29401

NOV 15

11:30AM

In Person

Catherine Ostler

Catherine Ostler will join the 2026 New York Jewish Book Festival in conversation with Doreen Carvajal, journalist and author of The Girl in Blue.

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The Museum of Jewish Heritage

36 Battery Pl

New York, NY 10280

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Books by Catherine Ostler

The Renoir Girls

A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal

By Catherine Ostler

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026

“Beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking… Ostler employs her research skills like an X-ray technician, peeking beneath the painting’s shimmering surface to reveal secrets and betr...

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The Duchess Countess

The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London

By Catherine Ostler

This “scintillating story superbly told” (The Times, London) explores the adventurous life of the stylish and scandalous Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston—a woman whose infamous trial was bigger news in British society than the American War of Independence—and provides a clear-ey...

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