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Catherine Carswell

Born

in Glasgow, Scotland

March 27, 1879

Died

February 18, 1946

Genre

Fiction, Biography

Influences

Charles Dickens T.S. Eliot Giovanni Boccaccio, John Davidson ...more

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Catherine Roxburgh Carswell (née Macfarlane) was a Scottish author, biographer and journalist, and a contributor to the Scottish Renaissance. Her work is considered an integral part of Scottish women's writing of the early 20th century.

The daughter of a Glasgow merchant, Carswell was educated at the Park School. From 1901 to 1903 she attended classes in English Literature at Glasgow University. She went on to study music at the Schumann Conservatorium in Frankfurt am Main before taking up employment as reviewer and dramatic critic at the Glasgow Herald from 1907 until 1915. She was subsequently an assistant theatre critic for the Observer.

Carswell's first marriage, to Herbert Jackson in 1903, was annulled in 1908, and in 1915 she married Do ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 247 ratings · 39 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Camomile 3.74 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1922 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Open the Door! by Catherine Carswell, John Carswell (Introduction) 3.72 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1920 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of Robert Burns really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1930 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	D.H. Lawrence: The Savage Pilgrimage 3.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1932 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lying Awake by Catherine Carswell, John Carswell (Editor) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1950 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tranquil Heart: Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1937 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Letters of Catherine Carswell by Catherine Carswell, Jan Pilditch (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catherine Carswell's War: Letters 1939-1946 by Catherine Carswell, Jan Pilditch (Introduction) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reminiscences of D.H. Lawrence, Parts 1 & 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1931	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reminiscences of D.H. Lawrence, Part 3: An original article from The Adelphi, 1932 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1932	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Catherine Carswell (?)

“Don't you agree that there must be something radically wrong with a civilisation, society, theory of life - call it what you like in which a hard-working, serious young woman like myself cannot obtain, without enormous difficulty, expense, or infliction of pain on others, a quiet, clean, pleasant room in which she can work, dream her dreams, write out her thoughts, and keep her few treasures in peace.”
― Catherine Carswell, The Camomile

tags: civilisation, difficulty, dreams, expense, room, society, theory-of-life, young-woman

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“I knew then where my place was. I knew - though I hate and fear failure - that I would rather end like Don John than succeed on the lines that marriage with Duncan would inevitably lay down for me.”
― Catherine Carswell, The Camomile

tags: failure, marriage

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“Now I am sitting in the Botanic Gardens. Though the puddles are frozen in the shade, you could sit out for ever so long in the sun without feeling cold. No one there but children with their nurses, and old men with pale, dreamy eyes thinking of nothing, perhaps wondering vaguely if they will hold on to see another spring. I am on a bench overlooking the Kelvin, and have been watching the seagulls. Whole flocks have come up inland from the Clyde. There are rooks too, very noisy and restless, deceived perhaps by the sunshine into thinking the winter is over.”
― Catherine Carswell, The Camomile

tags: glasgow, glasgow-botanic-gardens, old-men, river-kelvin, rooks, seagulls, winter

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