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Cookson, Catherine

Overview
Works: 897 works in 4,857 publications in 29 languages and 186,721 library holdings
Genres: Domestic fiction  Love stories  Historical fiction  Bildungsromans  Epic fiction  Romantic suspense fiction  Mystery fiction  Adventure fiction  Legal stories  Pastoral fiction 
Roles: Author of introduction
Classifications: pr6053.o525, 823.914
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40 editions published between and 2006 in 6 languages and held by 2,353 libraries worldwide
A compelling story of a loving family dominated by one woman's suffocating desires. Ellen Jebeau's love for her son threatens the rest of her family.
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45 editions published between and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 2,287 libraries worldwide
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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36 editions published between and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 2,254 libraries worldwide
When an unkempt woman who is barely able to speak arrives in his office, London attorney Alexander Armstrong is stunned to discover that she is Irene Baindor, a woman who holds the key to solving a mystery that has plagued him for twenty-six years.
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43 editions published between and 2000 in 5 languages and held by 2,247 libraries worldwide
The multigenerational story set in a nineteenth-century village in the northern English countryside tells of the enduring struggles between the classes.
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38 editions published between and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 2,235 libraries worldwide
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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44 editions published between and 2008 in 8 languages and held by 2,234 libraries worldwide
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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40 editions published between and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 2,216 libraries worldwide
An English country woman manages to overcome difficult circumstances to find her just reward in the healing power of love.
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38 editions published between and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 2,194 libraries worldwide
The story of growing up in the changing times of the Industrial Revolution of 1854. A young girl is abandoned to be raised by "Raggie Aggie" amidst the factories and slums of north England.
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38 editions published between and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 2,170 libraries worldwide
When Matthew Wallingham returns home after being blinded in the war, he tries to save the family farm, make peace with his resentful family, and find happiness with the woman he loves.
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57 editions published between and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 2,170 libraries worldwide
Fiona, a young widow left badly off with three children, advertises for a lodger. The result is Bill and it's not long before she can't remember life without him.
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35 editions published between and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 2,168 libraries worldwide
Young Annie Hannigan seems blessed, but when she falls in love with Terence Macbane, "the elusive boy next door," she must deal with both her childhood friend Brian Stannard and a rival, Cathleen Davidson.--Jacket.
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44 editions published between and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 2,141 libraries worldwide
The local parson's daughter, Nancy Ann, marries Harpcore, a gambler and rake who is master of the palatial estate in the district. It is her destiny to live a life of great luxury and adventure, great love and devastating loss.
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34 editions published between and 2003 in 5 languages and held by 2,127 libraries worldwide
As World War I approaches, Foreshaw Park, the run-down estate of the once-wealthy Thorman family, is the setting for the burgeoning romance between the Thormans' elder daughter, Agnes, and hired-hand Robert Bradley.
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31 editions published between and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 2,118 libraries worldwide
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.
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40 editions published between and 2000 in 5 languages and held by 2,110 libraries worldwide
Ten-year-old message-runner Freddie Musgrove's silence is bought after he witnesses a scene of unremitting horror at The Towers, but years later, when the horror reoccurs, Freddie must fight to remain uninvolved.
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39 editions published between and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 2,093 libraries worldwide
Portrays a whole rich vein of English life from the heyday of the Victorian era to the stormy middle years of the present century.
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51 editions published between and 2007 in 7 languages and held by 1,982 libraries worldwide
In the sequel to The Mallen Streak, Barbara, deaf and jealous of Sarah, throws Sarah into a pit which stores rusted machinery, causing Sarah to lose her leg.
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56 editions published between and 2008 in 7 languages and held by 1,961 libraries worldwide
Growing up amid the strict mores and stultifying traditions of Edwardian England's Redford Hall, Annabella Lagrange is forced to hide her father's terrible secret and turns to her beloved cousin, Stephen.
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58 editions published between and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 1,948 libraries worldwide
Poverty-stricken dock laborer John O'Brien defends his family from a drunken father and brother before falling in love with his sister's seemingly unattainable teacher.
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58 editions published between and 2008 in 9 languages and held by 1,872 libraries worldwide
Drawn to the beautiful girl he encounters amid the squalor of the Fifteen Streets slums, Dr. Rodney Prince wants nothing more than to rescue Kate Hannigan, who has suffered at the hands of her vicious, bullying father.
 
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Audience level: 0.34 (from 0.34 for My beloved ... to 0.38 for The fiftee ...)
Alternative Names

controlled identity Marchant, Catherine

Cookson, Catherine
Kukson, Kėtrin
Marchant, Catherine
Marchant, Catherine, 1906-1998
Marchant, Catherine, pseud.
Languages
English (3,484)
German (386)
Dutch (297)
Undetermined (225)
Finnish (129)
Swedish (107)
French (85)
Spanish (46)
Italian (38)
Norwegian (18)
Czech (17)
Slovenian (11)
Danish (10)
No Linguistic content (10)
Polish (8)
Vietnamese (5)
Portuguese (5)
Greek, Modern (5)
Turkish (5)
Hungarian (5)
Afrikaans (4)
Persian (3)
Russian (3)
Hebrew (2)
Slovak (2)
Estonian (1)
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Korean (1)
Basque (1)
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