Catherine Cookson, the Biography

Catherine Cookson, the Biography


Used – In writing this biography, many of Catherine Cookson’s friends have been willing to talk to the author. Even more importantly, Kathleen Jones has had access to early drafts of Catherine’s own autobiography, hitherto unseen, and hours of privately taped conversation. Born in 1906, the illegitimate daughter of a domestic servant, Catherine Cookson was brought up on Tyneside in one of the poorest communities of the western world. Her childhood was marred by violence, abuse, alcoholism, shame

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