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  The University of Glasgow :: Avenue: for alumni and friends of the University
Catherine attended the recently established Park School for Girls and then the Frankfurt Conservatorium for two years, but realised she wanted to be a writer rather than a musician.
Carswell's novel traces the childhood and young adulthood of the spirited Glasgow designer Joanna Bannerman, exploring her struggle for emotional and psychological self-realisation.
Catherine Carswell devoted many years to the writing of The Life of Robert Burns (1930) which was disliked by traditionalists and brought her some notoriety, as did, in 1932, The Savage Pilgrimage, written after Lawrence's death, in response to his critics.
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 Catherine Carswell Conference
The dramatic story of Catherine Carswell’s life is one of Glasgow's forgotten tales.
Catherine Carswell (1879-1946) studied music at the Frankfurt Conservatorium and attended classes at Glasgow University before achieving notable success as a novelist and journalist.
‘Carswell: Scot or North Briton?’ Panel discussion chaired by Dorothy McMillan (University of Glasgow) with panellists Fiona Black (University of Glasgow), Gerard Carruthers (University of Glasgow), and Dr. Sarah Dunnigan (University of Edinburgh).
www.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/ScotLit/carswell.htm   (348 words)

  
 SLAINTE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Carswell was born Catherine Roxburgh Macfarlane in Glasgow on 27th March 1879.
In her milieu of turn-of-the-century Glasgow this is not seen as a "womanly" occupation, and the novel is a serious examination, though in readable epistolary form, of the particular problems and dilemmas faced by a woman writer.
The Carswells were now both attempting to live by freelance writing, and Catherine's work - reviewing, criticism and editing - provided a major part of the family income.
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 Carswell, Catherine Roxburgh (1879-1946). Novelist.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Daughter of a shipping merchant, she was born Catherine Macfarlane in Glasgow on 27 March 1879.
It was D.H. Lawrence who encouraged Catherine Carswell to complete her first novel, the semi-autobiographical "Open the Door!" (1920).
Carswell also knew John Buchan and Hugh MacDiarmid, and she wrote biographies of Burns, Boccaccio and Lawrence.
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 Catherine Carswell Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Catherine Carswell (1879 1945), the novelist and biographer of Burns, was also a regular reviewer of new fiction in her early career.
First published in 1930 to a storm of protest, Carswell shakes the image of Burns as a romantic hero -- exposing the sexual misdemeanors, drinking bouts and waywardness.
Catherine Carswell's reminiscences occupied her for most of her life.
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 Paperback - The Life of Robert Burns - Canongate Home
Carswell deliberately shakes the image of Burns as a romantic hero - exposing the sexual misdemeanours, drinking bouts and waywardness that other, more reverential, biographers chose to overlook.
Her real achievement is to bring to life the personality of a great man: passionate, hard-living, generous, melancholic, morbid and triumphant...the very archetype of the supreme creative artist.
Catherine Carswell (1879-1946) was the younger daughter of a Glasgow shipping merchant, and studied music before becoming a journalist, first with the Glasgow Herald and then the London Observer.
www.canongate.net /TheLifeOfRobertBurns/Paperback   (188 words)

  
 Papers of Catherine Carswell - MSS - University of Nottingham
Catherine Carswell (1879-1946), journalist, novelist and biographer, was a close friend and regular correspondent of D.H. Lawrence from 1914 until his death in 1930.
Correspondence from D.H. and Frieda Lawrence to Catherine and Donald Carswell, and to Gordon Macfarlane; also correspondence of Catherine and John Carswell mainly relating to the letters of D.H. Lawrence and Catherine Carswell's 'The Savage Pilgrimage'.
Autograph note, written by Catherine Carswell; comments on Ellis Roberts' comparison of D.H. Lawrence with [Jonathan] Swift [1667-1745]; he may as well compare him to Euclid [fl 300 B.C.]; he was not out to castigate and had no use for satire; was out 'to reveal and to demonstrate and to pronounce'.
nottingham.ac.uk /mss/online/online-mss-catalogues/cats/carswell.html   (7739 words)

  
 Bloomsbury.com - Research centre
Catherine Carswell was a member of the `Other Bloomsbury'—the circle centred on D.
One of the first favourable critics of Lawrence's The%20Rainbow">The Rainbow (her review of the book lost her her job at the Glasgow Herald in 1915), Carswell's famous The Savage Pilgrimage (1932) is a vindication of Lawrence against John Middleton Murry's pseudo-Freudian attack on his former friend, Son of Woman (1931).
Lawrence encouraged Carswell in her novelistic endeavours, including Open the Door (1920), The Camomile (1922).
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 HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Catherine Heydon, 1858 to 1868: from Subiaco to Carcoar.
THUNDER The characters (Edward Burns and Catherine McCormack) are cardboard and the special...
Class Honours, Division 2 Elizabeth Catherine Pyne 2nd Class Honours, Division 2 Samantha...
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 The List: Vote for your Best Scottish Book of all time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It's all we've given to ourselves.' Open the Door!, whose author is probably best known for her 1930 biography of Robert Burns, is one of those novels that Gray's young hero seemed not to have got round to yet.
Catherine Carswell's first novel is the story of Joanna Bannerman's attempts to find the freedom denied by her religious upbringing.
Carswell's portrayal of a journey from girlhood to adulthood is full of nuanced observation; Joanna's love affairs are embarrassing and illicit, unfulfilling and life-changing.
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 Carswell Carswell Publishes Specialized Information And Research Tools In A Range Of Formats Including Boo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Carswell Data Products, Inc. Is your source for thermal receipt printers and electronic laser forms and ink-on-paper printed products for your financial institution or business.
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CARSWELL Genealogy and Family History Data The following is a list of the newest databases which contain CARSWELL family history records to the site and will appear on this page whenever the.
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 Catherine II: Character and Legacy
Catherine increased the power and prestige of Russia by skillful diplomacy and by extending Russia's western boundary into the heart of central Europe.
An enthusiastic patron of literature, art, and education, Catherine wrote memoirs, comedies, and stories, and corresponded with the French Encyclopedists, including Voltaire, Diderot, and d'Alembert (who were largely responsible for her glorious contemporary reputation).
She encouraged some criticism and discussion of social and political problems until the French Revolution made her an outspoken conservative and turned her against all who dared criticize her regime.
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 My Family
He was married to Catherine Wilson between 1809 and 1845.
She was married to Randall Hylman NELSON on 29 May 1946 in Pheoniville, PA. Children were: James Howard NELSON, John Andrew NELSON.
Children were: Maya Carswell Bhide, Monica Carswell Bhide.
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 Catherine II: Rise to Power
Accepting the Orthodox faith, she changed her original name, Sophie, to Catherine.
Neglected by the czarevich, Catherine read widely, especially Voltaire and Montesquieu, and informed herself of Russian conditions.
Perilous royal biography: representations of Catherine II immediately after her seizure of the throne.
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 The Savage Pilgrimage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Catherine Carswell (1879-1945), the novelist and biographer of Burns, was also a regular reviewer of new fiction in her early career.
When John Middleton Murry's Son of Woman appeared shortly after Lawrence's death, Catherine Carswell was stung by its assumption that Murry understood Lawrence's 'case' and had explained it in his book.
The Savage Pilgrimage was written partly in reply to Murry.
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 Meet the great Scottish writers … forgotten because they’re female - [Sunday Herald]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Part of a BBC television series, Writing Scotland, a programme on these “Lost Voices” argues that Scotland has its equivalent of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters, but that chauvinism led to the neglect of their works.
Ferrier, born in Edinburgh in 1782, wrote her masterpiece Marriage in 1818, and was an esteemed author and friend of Sir Walter Scott.
As well as a being a friend of DH Lawrence, Carswell was known as a maverick because of her frankness about repression and female sexuality.
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 The Life of Robert Burns - by Malcome MacLennan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
"Catherine Carswell's life of Robert Burns is still, apart from Burns' own account, the best" - The Observer (London)
Published in 1939 to a storm of protest, Carswell deliberately shakes the image of Burns as a romantic hero -- exposing the sexual misdemeanors, drinking bouts and waywardness.
Her real achievement is to bring to life the personality of a great man: passionate, hard-living, generous, melancholic, morbid and triumphant..
www.scottishradiance.com /book/life7.htm   (122 words)

  
 DH Lawrence exhibition - Manuscripts & Special Collections - The University of Nottingham
The inclusion of research papers of early biographers, such as Emile Delavenay, add another type of raw material for the next generation of students.
The writers Catherine Carswell (1879-1946) and John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) illustrate how the friends of Lawrence often disagreed in their memories of him.
The papers of Catherine Carswell have recently come to Nottingham by bequest of her son.
www.nottingham.ac.uk /mss/online/online-exhibitions/exhib_dhl/b5.phtml   (216 words)

  
 Hickey
Jane Carswell's Parents were John C Carswell (Jan 1760-Mar 2nd 1817) and Sarah Wright (1768-1808).John C Carswell's parents were Alexander Carswell born Ayr Scotland (1727-1803) and Isabell Brown, born Co Clare ireland.
Alexander Carswell was born in Burke Co. Ga.
Mary Catherine was born around 1823/4 in Jefferson Co Ga. Her parents were Thomas Whigam (1798-1863) and Catherine Patterson Whigam (1797-1863).
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 Genealogy Format Document
He married Catherine Carswell, daughter of Archibald Carswell and Elizabeth Forbes, on 4 Sept. 1868 in Pickletillum, Leuchars, Fife.
All their children were buried in Eastern Cem., St. Andrews, except for the last one, Thomas, who was buried in Western Cem., St. Andrews.
Robert Fairbairn (17) was born 21 Sept. 1877, died 20 Oct. 1941, and was buried in Eastern Cem., all in St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
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 Carswell,John Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
This book describes the programme of rapid expansion set out for British Universities in the Robbins Report of 1963, and tells the actual story of its performance up to the early 1980s.
The prescription and the realisation often differed in vital ways, and Mr Carswell is able to give an insider's view, fascinating and sometimes controversial, of...
by John Carswell, Mehmet Biber, National Geographic Society.
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 Margery Palmer McCulloch, Publications
2001 ‘Catherine Carswell and the Scottish Renaissance’ in Opening the Doors: The Achievement of Catherine Carswell, ed.
2000 ‘Catherine Carswell and the Scottish Renaissance’, In Scotland 3, (2000)
1997 'Sexual Poetics or the Poetry of Desire: Catherine Carswell's Life of Robert Burns in Love and Liberty: Bi-Centenary Essays on Robert Burns, ed.
www2.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/ScotLit/pubs/mcculloch.htm   (1502 words)

  
 Carswell: Open the Door!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
equivalent to Carswell's: Louis Pender = Greiffenhagen, Lawrence Urquhart =
The tone of the ending and other passages related to it does not
suggest Carswell regards her heroine ironically, so that the feminist aspect of the
www.st-andrews.ac.uk /academic/english/personal/cjmm/Carswell.html   (281 words)

  
 The Savage Pilgrimage -A Narrative of D.H.Lawrence - CARSWELL, CATHERINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Savage Pilgrimage -A Narrative of D.H.Lawrence - CARSWELL, CATHERINE
CARSWELL, CATHERINE The Savage Pilgrimage -A Narrative of D.H.Lawrence
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 PATRICK HORGAN Married CATHERINE HAYES (Unk)
Patrick Horgan age 36, Catherine Horgan age 35 Children- Anne 2 mths, Catherine age 8,
CATHERINE HORGAN Died age 68 in 1875 Inglewood Vic Ref no 113
CATHERINE HORGAN Married EDWARD COLLINS at St Francis Catholic Church,
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 The Savage Pilgrimage - Cambridge University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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The book survives the controversy with Murry: it was the first substantial biography of Lawrence, written by a close friend from direct knowledge, full of first-hand information, very sympathetic and understanding.
Introduction John Carswell; Preface; Part I: Part II: Part III: Part IV: Part V: Part VI; Index.
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 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 81003891
Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 81003891
Publisher description for The savage pilgrimage : a narrative of D.H. Lawrence / by Catherine Carswell ; with a memoir of the author by John Carswell.
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
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Open the Door (Virago Modern Classics) Catherine M. Carswell ISBN: 0140161279
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 [LAWRENCE, D. H.] CARSWELL, Catherine., The Savage Pilgrimage. A Narrative of D.H. Lawrence.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
[LAWRENCE, D. H.] CARSWELL, Catherine., The Savage Pilgrimage.
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