The dwelling place
collectionID:bodice_ripperFictionWorking classFiction, generalFiction, romance, general
5.0
Open LibraryAbout this book
When fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her nine siblings alone. Although desperately poor, the strong-willed Cissie determines to build a new home for the Brodies. It is only a rough stone shelter, but to Cissie and her family it is enough to keep them from the workhouse. They have friends, but charity cannot always spare them the harsh reality of their struggle and the bitterness of those who wish them harm. But can love, when it arrives, teach Cissie not to fear the world beyond the dwelling place? Set in the 1830's, The Dwelling Place is the powerful tale of a tenacious family's battle to overcome the odds.
Themes & subjects
collectionID:bodice_ripperFictionWorking classFiction, generalFiction, romance, generalFiction, romance, historical, general
Setting
Northern England1830-
About the author
Catherine Cookson
27 June 1906 – 11 June 1998
Catherine Ann McMullen was born on 27 June 1906 in Tyne Dock, England, UK. She grew up as daugther of Rose and John McMullen, but was the illegitimate daughter of Kate Fawcett, whom she believed to be her older sister, and Alexander Davies, a bigamist. She left school at 13 and, and she began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master, whom she married on June 1940. She suffered some miscarriages and couldn't have children. She took up writing as a form of therapy to tackle her depression, and joined Hastings Writers' Group. Her first novel was published in 1950. She wrote almost 100 books, which sold more than 123…
Reviews
No reviews yet — be the first to write one from the Log screen.
Quotes
No quotes yet.
