Helen Alice Matthews Nitsch (? -1889) was a nineteenth- century American author of novels and cooking books, who wrote under the pseudonym Catherine Owen. Her works include: Culture and Cooking; or, Art in the Kitchen (1881), Catherine Owen"s New Cook Book (1885), Ten Dollars Enough: Keeping House on Ten Dollars a Week (1887), Gentle Breadwinners: The Story of One of Them (1888), Choice Cookery (1889) and Progressive Housekeeping: Keeping House Without Knowing How, and Knowing How to Keep House Well (1889). She also contributed to The Home Manual: Everybody"s Guide in Social, Domestic, and Business Life (1889) with Mary Cunningham Logan, Will Carleton and William Mathews.