Catherine Gaskin

Catherine Gaskin Cornberg (born April 2, 1929 in Dundalk Bay , Ireland , † September 6, 2009 in Sydney , Australia ) was an Irish writer . She wrote 21 novels that sold over 40 million copies worldwide.

Life

Catherine Gaskin was born the youngest of six children to James Gaskin and Mary Harrington. At the age of three months, the family moved to Australia , where Gaskin grew up in Coogee , a suburb of Sydney. She attended Holy Cross School in Woollahra and studied piano at the Sydney Conservatory of Music. At the age of 14 she started writing her first novel. Every morning at 4:00 am, she started writing for two hours before going to school. The novel was published in 1946 under the title This Other Eden .

After her second novel Dust in Sunlight , she moved to England , where she wrote three other bestsellers: All Else Is Folly , All Else Is Folly and Daughter of the House . During this time she took care of her sick sister Moira, with whom she later moved to London . It took Gaskin two and a half years of research to write her sixth novel, Sara Dane . The story was based on the real life of Mary Reibey , sold over 2 million copies worldwide and was the basis for the 1982 Australian television series Sara Dane of the same name . Her novel The File on Devlin , published in 1965, was also made into a film by Australian television in 1969.

In 1955 Gaskin met her husband, who was 21 years her senior, Sol Cornberg, a television producer for the Australian television station GTV. They married in New York City and lived in Manhattan for over ten years . They then lived for a while in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands before settling in Ballymacahara , near Rathnew in Ireland in 1967 . They then lived on Isle of Man from 1981 . By The Charmed Circle in 1988 her last novel was published. Since her husband was seriously ill, she gave up writing and took care of him from then on. When her husband died in 1999, she returned to Australia, where she lived in Mosman . Gaskin died on September 6, 2009 at the age of 80 from complications from ovarian cancer . She herself had no children and left two step-sons.

Works

Publishing year	Original title	Year (translation)	German title	translator
1946	This Other Eden
1947	With Every Year
1950	Dust in Sunlight
1951	All Else Is Folly	1959	Everything else is folly	Hans Trausil Leonore Donant
1952	Daughter of the House
1954	Sara Dane	1956	Like sand at the ocean	Cilly Lutter
1958	Blake's Reach	1958	Because life is love	Hans Trausil Leonore Donant
1960	Corporation Wife	1961	Where you are going ...	Iris Foerster Rolf Hellmut
		1970	In the shadow of their men	Iris Foerster Rolf Hellmut
1962	I know my love	1964	The green-eyed lady	Karin S. Krausskopf
1963	The Tilsit Inheritance	1965	The English inheritance	Karin S. Krausskopf
1965	The File On Devlin	1967	The Devlin case	Karin S. Krausskopf
1967	Edge of glass	1972	Happiness and glass	Renate Nauck
1970	Fiona	1979	Fire in paradise	Cilly Lutter
1972	A Falcon for a Queen	1974	A falcon for the queen	Susanne Lepsius
1974	The property of a gentleman	1975	A wind chimes in the fog	Susanne Lepsius
		2005	The secret of the manor	Susanne Lepsius
1975	The Lynmara Legacy	1976	Lynmara	Gisela Kirberg
		1979	Love at Lynmara Castle	Gisela Kirberg
1977	The Summer of the Spanish Woman	1978	The legacy of the Marquesa	Susanne Lepsius
1980	Family affairs	1980	The family secret	Susanne Lepsius
1982	Promises	1983	The big promise	Susanne Lepsius
1985	The Ambassador's Women	1987	The hour of truth	Susanne Lepsius
1988	The Charmed Circle	1989	The storms of life	Susanne Lepsius

Web links

• Catherine Gaskin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Catherine Gaskin in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} 'Queen of Storytellers' who published first novel at age 17 ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Irish Times (via highbeam.com) 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} The girl with the golden pen , smh.com