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FROM: "Maureen O'Connor" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 1:51 PM

Hello All! I'm passing this on for a colleague. Many thanks in advance for
your help and I will post a list, if there's one to post.

I am looking for recommendations for a patron who is a big fan of Catherine
Cookson and Josephine Cox. She has read just about everything and is now
casting about for other authors. Her specifications are rather rigid
unfortunately and this is making the search rather difficult. She prefers
books about lower class women in England before the turn of the (20th)
century. I have tried Novelist but have not managed to really come up with
anything that specific.

Maureen

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Brampton Public Library
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FROM: "Franz, Patty" <[removed]@pamunkeylibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 2:12 PM

I enjoyed "Apple Tree Lean Down" by Mary E. Pearce which I think might fit.
There is a description on Novelist.

Patty Franz
Supervising Librarian
Pamunkey Regional Library
P. O. Box 119
Hanover, VA 23069

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Maureen O'Connor
Brampton Public Library
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FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 2:33 PM

She might like Bruce Alexander's series about Sir John Fielding, the blind
magistrate, brother to Henry Fielding. Sir John founded the Bow Street
Runners and the backdrop of this mysteries is Covent Garden market and the
characters found there, many of whom are women. Sir John's wife is also
involved in some of the stories. In one of them, she founds a hospital for
prostitutes and tries to rehabilitate them. The history is impeccable and
the characters are memorable.

Also, has she read Georgetter Heyer's regency romances? While the men are
almost always some branch of royalty, sometimes the women are just nice
country women. Heyer invented the genre of regency romance and they are all
really good, chaste and contain remarkable dialogue. Her history is quite
good as well.

HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

-----Original Message-----
From: Maureen O'Connor [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:34 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Late-19th-century fiction like Cookson and Josephine Cox


Hello All! I'm passing this on for a colleague. Many thanks in advance for

your help and I will post a list, if there's one to post.

I am looking for recommendations for a patron who is a big fan of Catherine
Cookson and Josephine Cox. She has read just about everything and is now
casting about for other authors. Her specifications are rather rigid
unfortunately and this is making the search rather difficult. She prefers
books about lower class women in England before the turn of the (20th)
century. I have tried Novelist but have not managed to really come up with
anything that specific.

Maureen

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Brampton Public Library
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FROM: Spencer Ms Martha <[removed]@usmc-mccs.org>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 2:33 PM

There are two memoirs that I would recommend that fit into this and I am
always searching for something as good as they are, but have not found it
yet. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee and Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora
Thompson. The latter is actually three books. Both are just wonderful. Cider
with Rosie was a Masterpiece Theater production.

Martha Spencer


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From: Maureen O'Connor [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:34 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Late-19th-century fiction like Cookson and Josephine Cox


Hello All! I'm passing this on for a colleague. Many thanks in advance for

your help and I will post a list, if there's one to post.

I am looking for recommendations for a patron who is a big fan of Catherine
Cookson and Josephine Cox. She has read just about everything and is now
casting about for other authors. Her specifications are rather rigid
unfortunately and this is making the search rather difficult. She prefers
books about lower class women in England before the turn of the (20th)
century. I have tried Novelist but have not managed to really come up with
anything that specific.

Maureen

****************
Maureen O'Connor
Brampton Public Library
[removed]@bramlib.on.ca

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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/6/02, 2:44 PM

I agree with the comment about Georgette Heyer (invented the genre; "chaste"
novels). For readers who would like more of the same, I would heartily
recomment all of the (7) regencies by Rita Boucher, and the early regencies
by Joan Wolf. Bearing in mind, of course, that Regency is early, rather than
late, 19th century.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "SHARRON SMITH" <[removed]@kpl.org>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 2:44 PM

Maureen:

I would suggest the patron try - Lena Kennedy, I'm not sure it the
timeframe is exactly on but the feel is very much like Cookson. Another
possibility would be Jessica Stirling.

Sharron Smith, Readers' Advisory Librarian
Kitchener Public Library
85 Queen St. N
Kitchener, ON N2H 2H1

(519) 743-0271 x259

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-----Original Message-----
From: Maureen O'Connor [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:34 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Late-19th-century fiction like Cookson and Josephine Cox


Hello All! I'm passing this on for a colleague. Many thanks in advance
for
your help and I will post a list, if there's one to post.

I am looking for recommendations for a patron who is a big fan of
Catherine
Cookson and Josephine Cox. She has read just about everything and is now

casting about for other authors. Her specifications are rather rigid
unfortunately and this is making the search rather difficult. She
prefers
books about lower class women in England before the turn of the (20th)
century. I have tried Novelist but have not managed to really come up
with
anything that specific.

Maureen

****************
Maureen O'Connor
Brampton Public Library
[removed]@bramlib.on.ca

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FROM: Kaite Mediatore <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 3:36 PM

How about Victoria Holt?

Plots go like this:

Young, not unattractive, intelligent and spunky Victorian
governess/orphan/ward/recently penniless woman becomes
involved with scion/black sheep/rogue/ne'er do well son
(who is really not as bad as he seems, just needs redeeming
by love from the right woman) and some unusual mystery
involving the family mansion/business/estate/jewels/lost
treasure/heirlooms taking place in South
Africa/Australia/New Zealand/Revolutionary France/and, of
course, England.

I am not poking fun at Ms. Holt. I loved all her books and
I understand why your patron likes them, too. No bad
language, no violence, and no "hanky panky"

Kaite

--- Spencer Ms Martha <[removed]@usmc-mccs.org> wrote:
> There are two memoirs that I would recommend that fit
> into this and I am
> always searching for something as good as they are, but
> have not found it
> yet. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee and Lark Rise to
> Candleford by Flora
> Thompson. The latter is actually three books. Both are
> just wonderful. Cider
> with Rosie was a Masterpiece Theater production.
>
> Martha Spencer
>
>
> Original Message-----
> From: Maureen O'Connor [[removed]@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:34 AM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Late-19th-century fiction like Cookson and
> Josephine Cox
>
>
> Hello All! I'm passing this on for a colleague. Many
> thanks in advance for
>
> your help and I will post a list, if there's one to post.
>
> I am looking for recommendations for a patron who is a
> big fan of Catherine
> Cookson and Josephine Cox. She has read just about
> everything and is now
> casting about for other authors. Her specifications are
> rather rigid
> unfortunately and this is making the search rather
> difficult. She prefers
> books about lower class women in England before the turn
> of the (20th)
> century. I have tried Novelist but have not managed to
> really come up with
> anything that specific.
>
> Maureen
>
> ****************
> Maureen O'Connor
> Brampton Public Library
> [removed]@bramlib.on.ca
>
>
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KCKPL Main Branch
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Kansas City, KS 66101
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/6/02, 3:36 PM

I'm not too familiar with these authors, but I recall that Rose by Martin Cruz Smith meets some of her criteria.

Betsy White
Saratoga Library
Saratoga CA

FROM: Sandy Westbrook <[removed]@crlc.org>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 3:46 PM

The Gale database "What Do I Read Next?" had these authors matching Cookson
- not all titles by these authors would fit your patron's requirements, but
some would:
Marion Chesney
Joan Aiken
Philippa Carr (Victoria Holt)

Browsing in the Fiction Catalog brought up these names:
Dorothy Eden
George Eliot

HTH.
Sandy Westbrook
South Windsor Public Library
South Windsor, CT 06074
Ph 860-644-1541
Fax 860-644-7645
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At 02:34 PM 2/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello All! I'm passing this on for a colleague. Many thanks in advance for
>your help and I will post a list, if there's one to post.
>
>I am looking for recommendations for a patron who is a big fan of Catherine
>Cookson and Josephine Cox. She has read just about everything and is now
>casting about for other authors. Her specifications are rather rigid
>unfortunately and this is making the search rather difficult. She prefers
>books about lower class women in England before the turn of the (20th)
>century. I have tried Novelist but have not managed to really come up with
>anything that specific.
>
>Maureen
>
>****************
>Maureen O'Connor
>Brampton Public Library
[removed]@bramlib.on.ca
>
>_________________________________________________________________
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>
>
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FROM: "Quillen, Christine" <[removed]@camden.lib.nj.us>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 5:54 PM

How about Jessica Stirling?

-----Original Message-----
From: Maureen O'Connor [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:34 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Late-19th-century fiction like Cookson and Josephine Cox


Hello All! I'm passing this on for a colleague. Many thanks in advance for

your help and I will post a list, if there's one to post.

I am looking for recommendations for a patron who is a big fan of Catherine
Cookson and Josephine Cox. She has read just about everything and is now
casting about for other authors. Her specifications are rather rigid
unfortunately and this is making the search rather difficult. She prefers
books about lower class women in England before the turn of the (20th)
century. I have tried Novelist but have not managed to really come up with
anything that specific.

Maureen

****************
Maureen O'Connor
Brampton Public Library
[removed]@bramlib.on.ca

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FROM: Thelma Stone <[removed]@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 6:04 PM

Some of Jessica Stirling's titles might fit the bill - The Island Wife,
The Good Provider, The Strawberry Season etc.

FROM: Sarah Nagle <[removed]@co.carver.mn.us>
REC'D: 2/6/02, 7:41 PM

How about Malcolm McDonald? He did quite a few working-class heroines, in
the Victorian era and after.

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 7:49 AM

>From: "Maureen O'Connor" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Late-19th-century fiction like Cookson and Josephine Cox
>Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:34:27 -0500
>
>I am looking for recommendations for a patron who is a big fan of Catherine
>Cookson and Josephine Cox. She has read just about everything and is now
>casting about for other authors. Her specifications are rather rigid
>unfortunately and this is making the search rather difficult. She prefers
>books about lower class women in England before the turn of the (20th)
>century.


"The Camerons," by Robert Crichton, might fit; it was just cited here a few
days ago. And if she wants to go back a ways, "Forever Amber," by Kathleen
Winsor--a lower-class girl who makes a success of herself in Stuart England.

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 8:11 AM

>From: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@cityofcarrollton.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: Late-19th-century fiction like Cookson and Josephine Cox
>Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:59:44 -0600
>
>
>Also, has she read Georgetter Heyer's regency romances? While the men are
>almost always some branch of royalty, sometimes the women are just nice
>country women. Heyer invented the genre of regency romance and they are all
>really good, chaste and contain remarkable dialogue. Her history is quite
>good as well.
>

The same could be said of Barbara Cartland, whose works are legion (if you
can *find* them).

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 8:43 AM

>From: Kaite Mediatore <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: Late-19th-century fiction like Cookson and Josephine Cox
>Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:21:49 -0800 (PST)
>
>How about Victoria Holt?
>
>Plots go like this:
>
>Young, not unattractive, intelligent and spunky Victorian
>governess/orphan/ward/recently penniless woman becomes
>involved with scion/black sheep/rogue/ne'er do well son
>(who is really not as bad as he seems, just needs redeeming
>by love from the right woman) and some unusual mystery
>involving the family mansion/business/estate/jewels/lost
>treasure/heirlooms taking place in South
>Africa/Australia/New Zealand/Revolutionary France/and, of
>course, England.
>


Same could be said of most of the "Gothics" from the '70's, if you can still
find them.

And don't forget "Jane Eyre"!

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FROM: megan mcardle <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 9:15 AM

You might recommend the recent novel "Slammerkin" by
Emma Donoghue. Set a little earlier than requested
(late 18th c.), it is loosely based on the true story
of a servant who killed her mistress. Very vivid
portrait of the lower-class streets of London at that
time.

Megan McArdle
Chicago Public Library


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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/7/02, 9:48 AM

Re: Kate Mediatore's (and others) comments about being able to find 70's
gothics and Barbara Cartland books - there are lots of used romance book
stores tucked away all over the country - we have several great ones here in
Maryland. In one, you have to climb the ladder and paw through books shelved
3 deep - but there are rewards! <g>

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian/bookaholic

FROM: Jane Koger <[removed]@libcoop.net>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 1:23 PM

Your patron might like Anna Gilbert's novels.

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