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Catherine Gavin | |
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![]() Catherine Gavin, from a 1969 newspaper. | |
Born | Aberdeen, Scotland | May 13, 1907
Died | 27 December 1999 (age 92) |
Nationality | Scottish |
Occupation(s) | historian, academic, war correspondent, novelist |
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Alma mater | University of Aberdeen |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Aberdeen University of Glasgow Kemsley Newspapers |
Catherine Irvine Gavin (13 May 1907 –27 December 1999) was a Scottish academic historian,war correspondent,and historical novelist. [1]
Gavin was born in Aberdeen in 1907, [2] and studied history and English at the University of Aberdeen,graduating with first-class honours. [1] She completed doctoral work in 1931,with a doctoral thesis on Louis Philippe of France;her thesis was published in 1933. [3]
Gavin held positions as a history lecturer at Aberdeen and at the University of Glasgow. [1] She stood unsuccessfully as a Unionist candidate in two parliamentary elections in the 1930s. [1]
During World War II,she worked in France and the Netherlands for Kemsley Newspapers. [1] She also wrote a biography of Edward VII,published in 1941. She was a correspondent in the Middle East and Ethiopia after the war,for the Daily Express. After marriage,she worked a few years on the staff of Time magazine in New York. [2] She wrote about her wartime experiences in Liberated France (1955). [4]
Most of Gavin's literary output was in the genre of historical romance. [5] "Her characters are attractive flesh-and-blood people,her narrative adventurous and suspenseful,and her use of history skillful and unerring," reported one American reviewer in 1957. [6] The University of Aberdeen awarded her an honorary DLitt in 1986. [1] The Catherine Gavin Room there is named in her honour. [1] The university has a 1940 portrait of her,in oil,by Elizabeth Mary Watt. [7]
Gavin appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 24 June 1978. [8]
Gavin's works of historical fiction include the following titles:
In 1948,Gavin married American advertising executive John Ashcraft [2] and moved to the United States with him. [1] She was widowed in 1998,and died in 1999,aged 92. [1]
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