Catherine Cookson

KATHLEEN JONES

Biographies & Memoirs

Constable

First published in Great Britain by The Windrush Press in 1991; the US edition was made available in 1992. An illuminating biography of one of the 19th century's most notable poets sister of the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and both product and victim of the Victorian era's social and religious standards. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Learning Not to Be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti

Arts & Literature

St.Martin's Press

One of the most popular writers of the 20th century, Catherine Cookson's story is as dramatic as any of her novels. Born in 1906, the illegitimate daughter of a domestic servant, she was brought up in Tyneside in one of the poorest communities of the western world. Her mother once begged barefoot from door to door and they lived in constant fear of the workhouse. But Catherine was determined to escape her situation and did so with enormous courage and energy, making her her way out of the slums of her childhood. After a tragic series of stillbirths and miscarriages, she attempted to "write it all out". All of her 97 novels are still in print. But the damage she suffered as a child left Cookson vulnerable and her health precarious. In this biography, Kathleen Jones has delved into early drafts of Cookson's own autobiography, and has also used as background the hours of privately taped conversation in which Cookson discusses much that she chose to keep secret in her own lifetime: her tortured feelings for her mother, her own mental torment and terrors, and her intense and devastating relationship with Nan Smith, who almost succeeded in wrecking Catherine's marriage.

Catherine Cookson : The Biography

Community & Culture

Little,Brown & Co

Born in 1906, the illegitimate daughter of a servant, Catherine Cookson was brought up in Tyneside in one of the poorest communities of the western world. This explores how Cookson determined to escape her situation and did so in a career which produced 97 novels, all still in print. Kathleen Jones has delved into early drafts of Cookson's own autobiography, and has also used as background hours of privately taped conversation in which Cookson discusses much that she chose to keep secret in her own lifetime: her tortured feelings for her mother, her own mental torment and terrors, and her intense and devastating relationship with Nan Smith, who almost succeeded in wrecking Catherine's marriage to Tom.

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Lunacy, Law and Conscience, 1744-1845

Taylor&Francis

Gain Confidence, Grow in understanding, Glean His Promises - You Choose the day, You Choose the Devotion - Spiral Design lays flat for Journaling, Topic and Scripture Index, Not Date Driven

God's Word Day Upon Day

Religion & Spirituality

Peggy Seay

Maureen Eubank

Christian Books & Bibles

Women Mentoring Women

Finding Your Magnificence: A Tail of Self-Exploration

Page Publishing, Inc.

Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey have become such a literary myth that we are used to looking at the Lake District solely through their eyes. But the story for the women who loved and surrounded them - Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth, Sarah Coleridge and their daughters - was very different. Based on necessity, the extended family-type group they formed was a far cry from the harmonious rustic idyll illustrated by their male counterparts. Kathleen Jones looks at their letters and journals in this illuminating account of their lives - the passionate attachments and jealousies, unwanted pregnancies and children's death, drug addiction and barbaric medical practices.

A Passionate Sisterhood : Wives, Sisters and Daughters of the Lakeland Poets

Literature & Fiction

Little Brown Paperbacks (a&C)

Shrek: The Art Of The Quest

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Insight Editions

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