The Upstart
Cookson, Catherine
ISBN 10: 0552140376 ISBN 13: 9780552140379
Verlag: Transworld Publishers Limited, 1997
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Suddenly risen to power and influence, Samuel Fairbrother, manufacturer and retailer of boots, shoes and clogs, decided that his new station in life deserved a more imposing residence. Accordingly he bought himself a thirty-four-roomed mansion situated on the outskirts of Fellburn. With the house came the butler, Maitland, who at once made plain his belief that Samuel, far from the gentleman his predecessor had been, was no more than an upstart. So began a clash of wills between master and man, at which Samuel Fairbrother discovered he was at a distinct disadvantage, for Maitland was well skilled in the art of maintaining his indispensability. Fairbrother, for his part, was only too aware that he dare not dispense with Maitland's services. And so an uneasy truce was declared between them. As the years went by and the century turned, Samuel Fairbrother saw his children, one by one, leave the big house to make lives of their own - all except his eldest daughter Janet who, by means of a legacy, was enabled to shape the destiny of her father's scattered family and effect the reconciliation that he thought was impossible.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.
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Titel: The Upstart
Verlag: Transworld Publishers Limited
Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
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Transworld Publishers Limite, 1997
ISBN 10: 0552140376
ISBN 13: 9780552140379
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The son and grandson of cobblers, Samuel Fairbrother owns a series of boot factories. He buys a Newcastle mansion as a means of showing off his wealth and fortune. Totally out of his social depth, he relies on his butler Mait land to tell him how to dress, when to have a party, and whom to invite. Sa m is a crude, possessive man who blusters loudly when he does not get his w ay. He knows he is considered an upstart. When Sam and his wife separate, h e insists that his oldest child, Janet, trained as a librarian, stay with h im. She and Maitland fall in love, but first one disaster and then another postpone their wedding. Cookson skillfully shows the class conflicts that r esult when a tradesman tries to climb beyond his station. Cookson, a perenn ial favorite (The Obsession,), has written another enjoyable tale of love a nd conflict in late 19th-century England. Artikel-Nr. RWARE0000003540
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