John
, son of Catherine
and Donald Carswell
, was born in frightening and gloomy wartime London, five years after the death of Catherine's daughter Diana.
Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald, 2007.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Catherine Carswell
CC
's husband
died in a street accident on the first day of the blackout: a passing car failed to see him in the dark. Her son
was soon afterwards sent overseas on military service...
Publishing
Catherine Carswell
A somewhat revised edition of the book (in which CC
felt she made her case against Murry stronger) was published later the same year in New York by Harcourt Brace
and in London by Martin Secker
Textual Production
Catherine Carswell
CC
's unfinished autobiography (with fragments, letters, poems and notes) was edited by her son John Carswell
, and published as Lying Awake.
Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. Lying Awake: An Unfinished Biography and Other Posthumous Papers, 1st ed., Secker and Warburg, 1950, p. ix - xxi.
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Texts
Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. Lying Awake: An Unfinished Biography and Other Posthumous Papers, 1st ed., Secker and Warburg, 1950, p. ix - xxi.
Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence, Cambridge University Press, 1981, p. v - xxxv.
Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. Open the Door!, Virago, 1986, p. v - xvii.
Carswell, Catherine. Lying Awake: An Unfinished Autobiography and Other Posthumous Papers. Editor Carswell, John, 1st ed., Secker and Warburg, 1950.
Carswell, John. The South Sea Bubble. Cresset Press, 1960.