Kate Fawcett

Standard Name: Fawcett, Kate

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Cookson
CC 's birth mother, Kate (Catherine) Fawcett , had been sent out in her own childhood to beg from door to door and to do laundry. All her earnings (two and six a week) went...
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Cookson
In 1953 CC 's mother , seriously ill with stomach cancer as well as suffering trouble with her heart, liver, and kidneys, moved south to live with her daughter. Catherine saw this as a final...
Residence Catherine Cookson
CC , her husband , and her mother moved from the Hurst (which was prohibitively expensive to keep up) to Loreto, a more modern house not far away, in a secluded woodland setting.
Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable, 1999.
222-3
Textual Production Catherine Cookson
She later described her instructions to herself for this book as, Forget about Chesterfield and Lords and Ladies and their big houses. Get rid of them. . . . Bring in Kate as you know...
Textual Production Catherine Cookson
CC published her first work of acknowledged autobiography: Our Kate, titled from her mother , not herself.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1970
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable, 1999.
237-8, 298-9

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