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Dudgeon, Piers : The Girl from Leam Lane: The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson

Headline, London, 1997

ISBN 0747219419

.index The first biography of Catherine Cookson to be written with her co-operation. Dudgeon tells the story of the ninety year old authoress through the heroines of her books-all of whom reflect some part of her personality, and particularly her harsh early life in Newcastle-upon-Tyne 248p.plates bibliography index.orevius owne'r name, else as]new. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: As New

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DUDGEON**, PIERS: : The Girl from Leam Lane: THE LIFE AND WRITING OF CATHERINE COOKSON.**

LONDON.HEADLINE,1997.

ISBN 0747219419.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Minimal shelf-wear dw/dj extrems.Bright,near pristine fore-edges and contents.Black/ grey paper-covered bds,bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 248pp includes 31pp b/w photographs, author's bibliography and an index. Cookson's first book,'Kate Hannigan',was published in 1950,when she was forty-four. It had been accepted by the first publisher to whom it had been submitted and established its author as a powerful creator of character and storyteller of rare talent.Since then,books have followed at an incredible rate and all of them have become huge bestsellers. What readers of 'Kate Hannigan' didn't realise was that more was being hatched in its initial pages than Kate's bastard daughter,Annie,and a vibrant new writer. The novel represents the first step of the author's triumph over unhappiness,which had led her from nervous breakdown,and a period of voluntary confinement in hospital as a pyschiatric patient,to the brink of suicide,and thoughts of murdering her own mother. Kate Hannigan's world,a place of darkness,imprisonment and suffocation was the same nightmare world into which her creator had herself been born on Tyneside. The faithful autobiographical content of this first novel revealed the author's private purpose.She was exorcising her own demons.Tyneside had taken on the shape of her fears and,still in the throes of breakdown,she was transforming them out of necessity through her art. Piers Dudgeon,who worked with the author on Catherine Cookson Country in the 1980's,unlocks her complex character using her many books as a key and explores with Catherine herself the tortured drama of her personal life and its resolution.It is a unique collaboration,the first time she has participated in a personal memoir since her autobiography in 1969. Please contact seller for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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DUDGEON**, PIERS: : The Girl from Leam Lane: THE LIFE AND WRITING OF CATHERINE COOKSON.**

LONDON.HEADLINE,1997.

ISBN 0747219419.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Believed to be an export copy - as there is no publisher's price to dw/dj,and its generally believed,export copies precede the trade edn.Minimal shelf-wear dw/dj extrems.Bright,near pristine top+fore-edges,even with light toning/ageing and contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread? Black/ grey paper-covered boards,gilt letters to spine/ backstrip.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,248pp includes 31pp b/w photographs,author's bibliography and an index. Cookson's first book,'Kate Hannigan',was published in 1950,when she was forty-four.It had been accepted by the first publisher to whom it had been submitted and established its author as a powerful creator of character and storyteller of rare talent.Since then,books have followed at an incredible rate and all of them have become huge bestsellers. What readers of Kate Hannigan didn't realise was that more was being hatched in its initial pages than Kate's bastard daughter,Annie,and a vibrant new writer.The novel represents the first step of the author's triumph over unhappiness,which had led her from nervous breakdown,and a period of voluntary confinement in hospital as a pyschiatric patient,to the brink of suicide,and thoughts of murdering her own mother. Kate Hannigan's world,a place of darkness, imprisonment and suffocation was the same nightmare world into which her creator had herself been born on Tyneside.The faithful autobiographical content of this first novel revealed the author's private purpose.She was exorcising her own demons.Tyneside had taken on the shape of her fears and,still in the throes of breakdown,she was transforming them out of necessity through her art. Piers Dudgeon,who worked with the author on Catherine Cookson Country in the 1980's,unlocks her complex character using her many books as a key and explores with Catherine herself the tortured drama of her personal life and its resolution.It is a unique collaboration,the first time she has participated in a personal memoir since her autobiography in 1969. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp.[Complete number line 3.]FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt 2/3rds wrap-around colour pictorial artwork 'Green Summer',by Edward Burne-Jones, illustrated dw/dj,with gilt and b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A tiny snick/closed tear - without loss,to front, top corner of dw/dj,both head +foot of spine/ backstrip of both dw/dj+boards minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges though lightly aged/toned are bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine,with very light page edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,could appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xxiiipp {paginated] includes contents list/table,illus list/table, acknowledgements,double-page Macdonald Family tree chart,a note on names,and an author introduction,Pts I-IV comprising 16 chapters+ afterword in total,16pp contemporary,b/w facsimile illus+photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp104/5 and pp264/5 respectively, 6 b/w illustrations throughout the text,notes,a select bibliography and an index.Plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks,title page,and dedication.Author's debut book. They were four women of little fortune.In early Victorian England,what opportunities were there for the daughters of a poor Methodist minister? The Macdonald sisters - Alice,Georgiana,Agnes and Louisa - started life precariously stationed in the teeming ranks of the lower-middle class. They were denied the advantage of a traditional education,or the expectation of social advancement.Yet,as wives and mothers,they were to connect a famous painter,a president of the Royal Academy,a prime minister and a poet. Georgiana and Agnes married,respectively,Edward Burne-Jones and Edward Poynter; Louisa gave birth to Stanley Baldwin,whilst Alice was the mother of Rudyard Kipling. 'A Circle of Sisters' brings to life four women who lived at an exceptional and privileged moment in history.Their journey,in a single generation,from provincial obscurity to metropolitan and imperial grandeur symbolized the energy and vitality of 19thC Britain.This was a society open to talent and abundant with possibility,where four lowly born sisters could rise to become the intimates of politicians, princes and viceroys. Offering a rare glimpse of daily life in the nineteenth century - of how people lived and died,of how houses were run and children were raised - Judith Flanders prises open the secrets of a Victorian family. From their homes in India,America,London and the English countryside,the Macdonald sisters formed a network that - as their husbands and children triumphed and faltered,and the dramas of the outside world unfolded - uniquely endured.Judith Flanders tells their remarkable story with wit,authority and flair. 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Dudgeon, Piers : THE GIRL FROM LEAM LANE: The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson

Headline Books, London, 2006

ISBN 0755314972

8vo. xvii, 302pp. Illustrated. Revised and Expanded Centenary Edition first published in 2006 [orig. 1997]. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: hardback. Jacket: Fine

revised and enlarged Edition

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