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The Gillyvors AKA The Love Child by catherine cookson Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock and the place of her birth provides the background she so vividly creates in many of her novels. Although acclaimed as a regional writer- her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 her readership spreads throughout the world. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and Corgi alone has sold 40,000,000 copies of her novels, including those written under the name of Catherine Marchant. Mrs. Cookson was born the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. Catherine began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings where she met and married a local grammar-school master. At the age of forty she began writing with great success about the lives of the working-class people of the North-east with whom she had grown up, including her intriguing autobiography, Our Kate. Her many best selling novels have established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. Mrs. Cookson now lives in Northumberland. OTHER BOOKS BY CATHERINE COOK SON NOVELS Kate Hannigan The Fifteen Streets Colour Blind Maggie Rowan Rooney The Menagerie Slinky Jane Fanny McBride Fenwick Houses The Garment The Blind Miller Hannah Massey The Long Corridor The Unbaked Trap Katie Mulholland The Round Tower The Nice Blojse The Glass Virgin The Invitation The Dwelling Place Feathers in the Fire Pure as the Lily The Mallen Streak The Mallen Girl The Mallen Litter The Invisible Cord The Gambling Man Miss Martha Mary Crawford The Tide of Life The Slow Awakening The Iron Facade The Girl The Cinder Path The Man Who Cried Tiny Trotter Tiny Trotter Wed Tiny Trotter Widowed The Whip Hamilton The Black Velvet Gown Goodbye Hamilton A Dinner of Herbs Harold The Moth Bill Bailey The Parson's Daughter Bill Bailey's Lot The Cultured Handmaiden Bill Bailey's Daughter The Harrogate Secret The Black Candle The Wingless Bird THE MARY ANN STORIES A Grand Man Life and Mary Ann The Lord and Mary Ann Marriage and Mary Ann The Devil and Mary Ann Mary Ann's Angels Love and Mary Ann Mary Ann and Bill FOR CHILDREN Matty Doolin Mrs. Flannagan's Trumpet Joe and the Gladiator Go Tell It To Mrs. Golightly The Nipper Lanky Jones Blue Baccy Nancy Nutall and the Mongrel Our John Willie AUTOBIOGRAPHY Our Kate Catherine Cookson Country Let Me Make Myself Plain WRITING AS CATHERINE MAR CHANT House of Men Heritage of Folly The Fen Tiger THE GILLYVORS Catherine Cookson CORGI BOOKS THE GILLYVORS A CORGI BOOK 0 552 13621 2 Originally published in Great Britain by Bantam Press, a division of Transworld Publishers Ltd PRINTING HISTORY Bantam Press edition published 1990 Corgi edition published 1991 Corgi edition reissued 1991 Copyright Catherine Cookson 1990 The right of Catherine Cookson to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Conditions of sale 1. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. 2. This book is sold subject to the Standard Conditions of Sale of Net Books and may not be re-sold in the U. K. below the net price fixed by the publishers for the book. This book is set in 1 Ipt Sabon by Chippendale Type Ltd. " Otiey, West sndvol32 Yorkshire. Corgi Books are published by Transworld Publishers Ltd. " 61-63 Uxbridge Road. Baling, London W5 5SA, in Australia by Transworld Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd." 15-23 Helles Avenue, Moorebank, NSW 2170, and in New Zealand by Transworld Publishers (N. Z. ) Ltd. " Cnr. Moselle and Waipareira Avenues, Henderson, Auckland. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd. " Reading, Berks. To Jack, with my warmest thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow legal-wise. May you continue to sing in the mornings to Kathleen If you are the bastard of a king, an earl, a lord, Although the shame will still be there, You'll get a cut from the world's fare; Your mother too will have her share. But if you spring from the loins of the poor, Your mother will be classed a whore, A Strumpet, a Gillyvor or a sot, And her bread will be dearly got. As for you, the stain is red, And qualifies you for any man's bed. But should you rear and stand aside And demand to be a virgin bride, Prepare for ridicule and disdain. Base-born, a child of Cain, A bastard, And that you will remain. The fairest flowers o' the season ; our carnations and streak'd gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards. From The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare Part One THE FAMILY'll Part Two ANNA 53 Part Three THE CHILD 147 Par? Four THE BLOW Par? Five THE CROSS 329 Epilogue Part One THE FAMILY "I tell you, Dada, that's what I mean." Her face bright with merriment, the young girl read again from the magazine: "Ladies and farmers' wives will benefit equally from the scented sachets on their pillows. The fragrance is derived from rose petals, sweet briar blossom At this point the dark, bright eyes lifted from the page and swept over her family before she went on, gurgling now, " Cow pats, well ground, as in Farmer Cox's boxings, sold by the pound and dampened, for poultices on the chin, and boils where boils have never bin . Her voice trailed off and joined the peals of laughter as, dropping the magazine on to the low oak table, she turned and clung to her sister, the while her two older brothers, their bodies bent forward, made guttural sounds and their younger brother. Jimmy, lay on his back on the mat before the open fire, his legs in the air treddling as if he were on a mill; the youngest of them all, a nine-year-old boy, leaned against his mother's side, and she drooped her head until it touched his, and they shook together. The father hadn't openly joined them in their laughter; but rising from his seat at the side of the fireplace, he slapped his daughter
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