Life of catherine cookson
Life of catherine cookson
Catherine cookson the gambling man!
Cookson, Catherine (1906–1998)
British novelist whose books often depict the working-class country or mind-set of Northern England, where she was raised. Name variations: Catherine Marchant; Dame Catherine Cookson.
Born Catherine McMullen on June 20, 1906, in Tyne Dock, South Shields, England; died of a heart ailment in Jesmond Dene, Newcastle, England, on June 11, 1998, at age 91; daughter of Catherine Fawcett and a father she never knew; educated at parochial schools; married Thomas Cookson, in June 1940; no children.
Awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE, 1985); made Dame Commander of the British Empire (cbe, 1993).
Selected works:
Kate Hannigan (1950); The Round Tower (1968); Our Kate (1969); Catherine Cookson Country (1986); The Cultured Handmaid (1988); Let Me Make Myself Plain (1988).
Catherine Cookson was born in Northern England, on June 20, 1906.
Her mother was an unmarried 24-year-old barmaid who endured the reputation of a "fallen woman" whe