Catheri Cookson: The Gillyvors

by Cookson, Catheri

ISBN: 9780552136211

Published: 1991

A century or so ago there lived at Heap Cottage in County Durham, a man and a woman and their six children. To an outsider they would have suggested a close and loving family group. But Nathaniel Mortell and Maria Dagshaw were not married so their children were outcasts, a bunch of base born gillyvors. But Anna, the eldest daughter, resolved to face the legacy of her birth.