![]() They are novels that show women getting second chances, changing and becoming creative, moving on just as she also changed from one genre to the next. Watson wrote six novels focusing on women’s issues over the years. The work was published by Methuen in 1935. He retorted that maybe she could write something better.Īfter she was done writing the manuscript for “Fell Top,” she put it away and it was not until many years later that she saw a publisher asking for manuscripts that she dug it out. She had been foolhardy enough to tell him that he was reading rubbish. “Fell Top,” her debut novel was born partly from a dare from her brother in law. ![]() As such, she spent most of the time trying to pen manuscripts in the style and genres she loved reading. Upon graduation, she attended commercial college then got a job working as a typist in Newcastle Upon Tyne.Īccording to the author, it was a boring job and she had so little to do. The author went to Berwick on Tweed St Ronan boarding school alongside her sisters. ![]() Catering to the needs of the working class explains the sympathy and interest in class prominent in her works. She was born to a middle class family as her father was the owner of four shops Newcastle and Gateshead. Winifred Watson is a literary fiction author from Jesmond in Newcastle in the UK. ![]()
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