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Catherine Kerrigan


Born
Glasgow, Scotland
Died
December 16, 2017

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Professor Catherine Kerrigan (1939 - 2017) came to attention in the 1980s after taking her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees as a mature student and then going on to make a significant contribution to Scottish literary studies. Catherine was the fourth child in a family of ten, seven of whom lived to adulthood. As a child she attended St. Ninian's Primary School and went on to Notre Dame High School in Glasgow, situated close to Charles Rennie Mackintosh's famous School of Art. She left school at sixteen and worked first as a shorthand typist for British Rail before training in nursing and maternity care in Glasgow and London. When she was just over twenty-one she emigrated to Canada, where an aunt and an older sister had preceded her ...more

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The Ebb-Tide

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Weir of Hermiston

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An Anthology of Scottish Wo...

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Whaur Extremes Meet: The Po...

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