Katherine Frank

With few exceptions, LDG was now deprived of her family's company. Her household was initially comprised of her English maid, Sally , and Omar (the two later had a child together and were married in...

For the rest of her married life MK 's mother was socially isolated, and she limited human contact to nursing and serving those in need. She eventually became ill with neurasthenia, a psychological ailment common...

The biographer of FS 's rival Mary Kingsley , however, alleges that Shaw's unstable health at this time was caused by a rejection she received from her long-time object of affection, Sir George Goldie.

The Joys of Motherhood was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in 1979, and BE received a Best British Writer's Award for it in 1980.Katherine Frank wrote a review article about her first five novels...

Her biographer Katherine Frank speculates on Kingsley's public versus her private rationale for setting out on such a voyage. Kingsley professed that her intention was to complete the research for a book begun by her...