The Black Candle
by Catherine Cookson
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The multigenerational story set in a nineteenth-century village in the northern English countryside tells of the enduring struggles between the classes.Tags
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I had avoided reading Catherine Cookson thinking that she wrote romance fiction. However, I was pleasantly surprised when reading The Black Candle. this a very engrossing book of historical fiction set in 1883 in England. The description of the settings and the culture of the times was well done and the story never lagged. I will search out other books by this author
Couldn't get into it.
Een hartverwarmende roman over een hardwerkende vrouw, die het moet opnemen tegen het slechte in de mens.
Bridget is pas negentien wanneer zij het familiebedrijf van haar vader erft. Binnen enkele jaren weet zij de kaarsenfabriek tot grote bloei te brengen en daarmee wint zij het vertrouwen en het respect van zowel klanten als haar werknemenrs. Thuis stapelen de problemen zich op. Tussen Bridgets inwonende nichtje en de onsympathieke Lionel Filmore ontstaat een stormachtige relatie.
Bridget is pas negentien wanneer zij het familiebedrijf van haar vader erft. Binnen enkele jaren weet zij de kaarsenfabriek tot grote bloei te brengen en daarmee wint zij het vertrouwen en het respect van zowel klanten als haar werknemenrs. Thuis stapelen de problemen zich op. Tussen Bridgets inwonende nichtje en de onsympathieke Lionel Filmore ontstaat een stormachtige relatie.
Jul 17, 2012Dutch
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Catherine Cookson, 1906 - 1998 British writer Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, Co. Durham. She was born illegitimate and into poverty with a mother who was, at times, an alcoholic and violent. From the age of thirteen, Catherine suffered from hereditary hemorrhage telangiectasia. She also believed, for many years, that she was abandoned as show more a baby and that her mother was actually her older sister. Catherine wrote her first short story, "The Wild Irish Girl," at the age of eleven and sent it to the South Shields Gazette, which sent it back in three days. She left school at the age of thirteen to work as a maid for the rich and powerful. It was then that she saw the great class barrier inside their society. From working in a laundry, she saved enough money to open an apartment hotel in Hastings. Schoolmaster, Tom Cookson, was one of her tenants and became her husband in 1940. She suffered several miscarriages and became depressed so she began writing to help her recovery. Catherine has written over ninety novels and, under the pseudonym of Catherine Marchant, she wrote three different series of books, which included the Bill Bailey, the Mary Ann, and the Mallen series. Her first book, "Kate Hannigan" (1950), tells the partly autobiographical story of a working-class girl becoming pregnant by an upper-middle class man. The baby is raised by Kate's parents and the child believes them to be her real parents and that Kate is her sister. Many of her novels are set in 19th century England and tell of poverty in such settings as mines, shipyards and farms. Her characters usually cross the class barrier by means of education. Catherine received the Freedom of the Borough of South Shields and the Royal Society of Literature's award for the Best Regional Novel of the year. The Variety Club of Great Britain named her Writer of the Year and she was voted Personality of the North-East. She received an honorary degree from the University of Newcastle and was made Dame in 1933. Just shortly before her ninety-second birthday, on June 11, 1998, Catherine died in her home near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. "Kate Hannigan's Girl" (1999), was published posthumously and continues the story of her first novel. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Bij het licht van een kaars
- Original title
- The Black Candle
- Original publication date
- 1989
- People/Characters
- Bridget Mordaunt; Victoria Mordaunt (Bridget's cousin); Joe Skinner; Lionel Filmore
- Related movies
- The Black Candle (1991 | IMDb)
- Disambiguation notice
- This is the book; do not combine with the TV movie
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