{"id":6319,"date":"2015-05-29T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2015-05-29T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T18:05:52","slug":"revisiting-catherine-cookson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6319","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Catherine Cookson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Sandbrook talks about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/hay-festival\/11637345\/Catherine-Cookson-the-missing-link-between-Charles-Dickens-and-Irvine-Welsh.html\">virtues of author Catherine Cookson<\/a>, who <a href=\"http:\/\/authors.simonandschuster.com\/Catherine-Cookson\/265\">published 104 works<\/a> before her death in 1998. &#8220;She is not cool or trendy. Cookson was sneered at a lot in her lifetime because her readers were the antithesis of the readers usually celebrated by literary critics: predominantly middle-aged and elderly women, often working class. Her books are conservative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sandbrook has produced a biopic for BBC2 on Cookson. (via Prufrock)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Sandbrook talks about the virtues of author Catherine Cookson, who published 104 works before her death in 1998. &#8220;She is not cool or trendy. Cookson was sneered at a lot in her lifetime because her readers were the antithesis of the readers usually celebrated by literary critics: predominantly middle-aged and elderly women, often working &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revisiting Catherine Cookson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-fiction"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}