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Mary Ann Shaughnessy is the protagonist in a series of regional fiction novels by English novelist Catherine Cookson. Mary Ann is a poor young girl who lives in a dockland tenement in Tyneside, North East England. Her goal is to find a better life for her family. The series is also known as the Mary […]
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Catherine Cookson (1906-1998) was an English author of historical fiction novels and the author of the Mary Ann Shaughnessy series. She grew up the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished woman named Kate, whom she was led to believe was her older sister. Catherine was known as a regional writer, writing specifically for readers from the […]
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