Thu Jan 22 23:13:46 2009 UTClccn-n79-45994Novelists, English--20th centuryWomen novelists, English--20th centuryWorking class--England, Northern0.340.340.38Catherine_Cooksonn 79045994oca00279371a119374781Cookson, CatherineKukson, KėtrinMarchant, Catherinelccn-no94-33873lccn-no96-28193Jameson, Susannrtnp-mons, annetMons, Annetlccn-no96-22263Henry, Elizabethnrtnp-bergstrom, britte marieBergström, Britte-Marietrlnp-pitkanen, inkeriPitkänen, Inkerinp-havander, emmaHavander, Emmalccn-sh94-1142Shaughnessy, Mary Ann (Fictitious character)lccn-sh99-722Trotter, Tilly (Fictitious character)lccn-sh94-1074Bailey family (Fictitious characters)viaf-DNB|105142743Friedmann, ErnitrlCookson, CatherineCookson, Catherine100Domestic fictionLove storiesHistorical fictionBildungsromansEpic fictionRomantic suspense fictionAdventure fictionMystery fictionLegal storiesPastoral fictionSecretariesReclusesGamblersDeaf womenHatsMarried womenWomen novelists, EnglishMillineryWeddingsEngland--LondonChildren of clergyWorking class familiesGlass manufactureFamily farms1939-1945Talking booksNursesIllegitimate childrenIllegitimacyMothers and daughtersObsessive-compulsive disorderAbandoned childrenYoung menGreat BritainMaster and servantMothers and sonsBlindInheritance and successionFamilyBailey family (Fictitious characters)Fathers and sonsHistoryEngland--NorthumberlandNovelists, EnglishSocial classesBiographyFarm lifeTrotter, Tilly (Fictitious character)Shaughnessy, Mary Ann (Fictitious character)Domestic fictionFathers and daughtersYoung womenManners and customsCookson, CatherineWorking class womenEnglandLarge type booksWorking classEngland, NorthernFiction19501952195319541955195619571958195919601961196219631964196519661967196819691970197119721973197419751976197719781979198019811982198319841985198619871988198919901991199219931994199519961997199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009161874book823.914pr6053.o52555731822092189310324ocn025632731sw025632731:lccn-n79-45994Truebook19930.34Cookson, CatherineDomestic fictionLove storiesHistorical fiction

Ellen wants her son Joseph to have everything she has missed, and goes to live with her dead husband's brother at the family seat in the 1920's. It takes Joseph 20 years to escape the heritage of his mother's ruthless ambition.

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Bridget Dene Mordaunt inherited her father's businesses and three years later in 1880 as a 23 year old young woman has proven to be a successful business woman.

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Fiona Nelson, widowed and with three children, needs a lodger to help pay the bills.

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Learning to read and write was a rare and perilous accomplishment among people of the 1830s, when employers viewed any spread of education with suspicion. When widowed Riah becomes housekeeper to a scholarly recluse it causes problems with her daughter Biddy.

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The Sabbath created problems for the daughter of a country parson. She loved her father, but his sermons seemed long when the autumn sunshine beckoned her. Her courage she would soon have to muster to the full when marriage thrusts her into womanhood.

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Twenty two year old Agnes Conway is dissatisfied with her life as a low-paid assistant. A chance meeting seems the answer to her dreams, but it is Christmas 1913, and the horror of the trenches is beckoning.

2072311929ocn012805175sw012805175:lccn-n79-45994Truebook19860.34Cookson, CatherineDomestic fictionLove stories

Independent young carpenter Robert Bradley obtains work at Foreshaw Park, home of the once-wealthy Thorman family. He encounters the ethereal daughter Millie, known as "Thorman's Moth", and becomes involved with her sister Agnes. But the values of Edwardian society make liason between servant and mistress difficult.

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Ten-year-old Frederick Musgrave is a carrier of messages for the smugglers along the river Tyne. Then he meets Maggie Hewitt, a sea captain's daughter, who is to play a major role in shaping his life as he grows to manhood.

05521478772037302425ocn037315369sw037315369:lccn-n79-45994Truebook19960.34Cookson, CatherineDomestic fictionHistorical fiction

A novel of class conflict in 19th century England, featuring a butler who advises a nouveau riche on how to be a gentleman. The upstart is Samuel Fairbrother, owner of a boot factory who buys a mansion, but doesn't know how to dress, eat or receive. To his consternation, his daughter falls in love with the butler. By the author of The Obsession.

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In 1854 Millie Forester was seven years old, surprisingly well-dressed, well-spoken and composed for one suddenly abandoned by a panic-stricken mother in an all-too-obvious flight from the law. Millie came into Aggie Winkowski's life like a bolt from the blue; some knew Aggie as 'Raggy Aggie' for trading in rags and old clothes was her long-established business. They establish a relationship that would grow and deepen, moulding Millie's or 'the rag nymph' as she was called, destiny and giving new meaning to Aggie's life. Millie's advance through the coming years to the threshold of womanhood is the core of a gripping and socially concerned historical novel.

07451404672010315328ocn036767594sw034686156:lccn-n79-45994Truebook19970.34Cookson, CatherineHistorical fictionDomestic fictionLove stories

An Englishwoman's battle to hang on to her family's bankrupt estate. She is Beatrice, one of four daughters of a gambling landowner who died in debt. By hook or by crook, Beatrice intends to hang on to her patrimony, her schemes including marriage and busting other people's marriage. By the author of The Year of the Virgins.

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A coming-of-age novel featuring a farmer's son in 19th century New England. Daniel Stewart wants to be a doctor, but his father won't pay for studies, spending his money on drink and on making babies with his second wife. When the father dies, Daniel must care for the family, which ends his prospects of studies as well as marriage to his love. By the author of The Lady on My Left.

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In England a farmer marries a beautiful dancer, thereby incurring the wrath of a farm girl who considered herself engaged to him. A tale of revenge and death. By the author of The Rag Nymph.

1942294925ocn048645237sw045735757:lccn-n79-45994Truebook20010.34Cookson, CatherineLegal storiesDomestic fiction

The silent lady who presented herself at the firm of London solicitors was clearly a vagrant. But when Alexander Armstrong, the firm's senior partner, learned her name everyone was amazed at his reaction. For Irene Baindor had a past, and her emergence is to signal the unravelling of a mystery that had baffled Armstrong for years.

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The Golden Straw, a hat, was presented to Emily. After her friend Mabel's death Emily took herself off to an hotel in Nice. It was now 1880 and Paul Anderson Steerman, a fellow guest, first noticed The Golden Straw, then his gaze quickly turned to Emily. But he was not all he seemed to be, and he was to bring nothing but disgrace and tragedy to Emily. The traumatic months following her return to England were but a prelude to a series of events that would influence the destiny not only of her children but her grandchildren too.

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Invalided out of the army at the end of the Second World War, Matthew Wallingham wonders what place there is in a new social order for a blind man - even if he is a decorated war hero. He has the sympathy of family and friends, but it seems the only person who can help him is his nurse, Liz. When he arrives home, he realises that his family have their problems too and it soons dawns on him that his plans are not going to work. He starts to look for Liz. But Liz herself has a shadow hanging over her.

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"It is the 1920s and Kate is happily married to Dr. Rodney Prince-- but spiteful rumours about Kate's past seem to dog her and her illegitimate daughter Annie's steps. Annie faces a choice between two ways of life-- the middle-class existence offered by Brian Stannard and the uncertain prospects of Terence McBane, a brilliant mathematician from the under-privileged world that Annie knew as a child. She must find the strength and eventual maturity that will enable her to overcome the troubles which threaten to engulf her."--Container.

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A young woman from a wealthy family, the owner of a glass-works, experiences wealth, misfortune and poverty in nineteenth century north-east England.

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Two orphans, one deaf and mute, struggle to stay alive by relying on their own wits and stolen food from a formidable recluse.

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Catherine Cookson's story is as dramatic as any of her bestselling novels. Born in 1906, the illegitimate daughter of a servant, she was brought up in the slums of Tyneside. Her childhood was marred by violence, abuse, alcoholism and shame. But determined to escape her situation, Catherine made her way out of the poverty trap by "writing it all out". Her novels became a new genre and her legendary success is contrasted here with a fuller, darker picture of her life.

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"'Kate's Daughter' gets to the heart of the Catherine Cookson story. With the help of material made available since Catherine's death, Piers Dudgeon lifts the veil on the myth and lays bare the true nature of this complex and fascinating woman. What emerges is a fresh docuementary portrait, shot through with a psychological dimension that explains for the first time the fears that cast Catherine into the nightmare of mental breakdown and fed the very darkest veins of autobiography in her novels."--P. [4] of cover.

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A collection of essays and poems, including some autobiographical material.

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Following the remarkable success of LET ME MAKE MYSELF PLAIN, Catherine Cookson compiled a further selection of thoughts, recollections and observations on life - and death - together with another collection of the poems she prefers to describe as "prose on short lines". "One way or another, she is an inspiration, a noble spirit" John Braine.

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My Land of the North is Catherine Cookson's own account of her harsh upbringing in the industrial North East, and the effect that its proverty, exploitation and bigotry had on her life and her writing. It aroused such deep emotions in her that she fed off them for her ideas and characters for the rest of her life. And in the company of her best-loved fictional creations who meant so much to her she writes passionately about Tyneside and its people.

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