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.
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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
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...