A Dinner of Herbs (2000) with Jonathan Kerrigan, Melanie Clark Pullen, Debra Stephenson, David Threlfall and Billie Whitelaw

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Tom and Catherine, a musical about the couple's life, was written by local playwright Tom Kelly. It played to sell-out crowds at the Customs House in South Shields. Morton, David (12 June 2013). "Remember When: The Death of South Shields author Catherine Cookson" . Retrieved 15 January 2018. Many of Cookson's novels have been adapted for film, radio, and the stage. The first film adaptation of her work was Jacqueline (1956), directed by Roy Ward Baker, based on her book A Grand Man. [14]

In 1983 Katie Mulholland was adapted into a stage musical by composer Eric Boswell and writer-director Ken Hill. Cookson attended the première. [16] Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Cookson, Dame Catherine (Ann), (20 June 1906–11 June 1998), author, since 1950". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi: 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u177701. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1 . Retrieved 11 June 2020. Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust". Archived from the original on 18 August 2007 . Retrieved 15 January 2018.

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Cookson was portrayed by actress Kerry Browne in the 2018 award-winning film Our Catherine, co-written by Tom Kelly. Our John Willie (1980) with Ian Cullen, David Burke, James Garbutt, John Malcolm and Malcolm Terris Following her death in 1998, aged 91, the Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust continues Dame Catherine’s generous philanthropy in supporting charitable, medical and academic research organisations through grants and funding. Cookson [née Davies], Dame Catherine Ann (1906–1998), writer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/70039 . Retrieved 11 June 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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Cookson wrote almost 100 books, which sold more than 123 million copies, her novels being translated into at least 20 languages. She also wrote books under the pseudonyms Catherine Marchant [10] and a name derived from her childhood name, Katie McMullen. [11] She remained the most borrowed author from public libraries in the UK for 17 years, [12] up until four years after her death, losing the top spot to Jacqueline Wilson only in 2002. [13] Books in film, on television and on stage [ edit ] This special DVD collection includes 19 TV adaptations for the small screen featuring all-star casts who convey all the drama and emotion of each magnificent tale. Advance: Philanthropy at Newcastle University" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2011 . Retrieved 5 April 2023. THE MALLEN STREAK, THE MALLEN GIRLS, THE MALLEN SECRET, and THE MALLEN CURSE (1979-80) - THE FIFTEEN STREETS (1989)

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Hollywood on Tyne: Catherine Cookson Dramas". bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 February 2006 . Retrieved 17 September 2007. THE MOTH (1997) - THE ROUND TOWER (1998) - COLOUR BLIND (1998) - TILLY TROTTER (1999) - THE SECRET (2000) What Katie did ...". Newcastle Journal. 30 September 1983. p.1 . Retrieved 30 October 2018– via British Newspaper Archive. Heritage of folly / Catherine Marchant (the pseudonym of Catherine Cookson)". NLA.gov.au. National Library of Australia. In June 1940, at the age of 34, she married Tom Cookson, a teacher at Hastings Grammar School. After experiencing four miscarriages [8] late in pregnancy, it was discovered she was suffering from a rare vascular disease, [4] telangiectasia, which caused bleeding from the nose, fingers and stomach and resulted in anaemia. A mental breakdown followed the miscarriages, from which it took her a decade to recover. [6] Writing career [ edit ]She left school at 14 and, after a period of domestic service, [7] took a laundry job at Harton Workhouse [5] in South Shields. In 1929, she moved south to run the laundry at Hastings Workhouse, saving every penny to buy a large Victorian house, and then taking in lodgers to supplement her income. [6]