Tom and Catherine, a musical about the couple's life, was written by local playwright Tom Kelly. It played to sell-out crowds at the Customs House in South Shields. The Secret (2000) with Colin Buchanan, Hannah Yelland, Elizabeth Carling, Clare Higgins, and Stephen Moyer In early 2010, Weeks appeared as "Sarah Prentice" in a production of the Agatha Christie play A Daughter's A Daughter at London's Trafalgar Studios. [12] Later that year, Weeks appeared as Eliza Doolittle in a production of Pygmalion at the Chichester Festival Theatre in West Sussex. Cookson, Dame Catherine (Ann), (20 June 1906–11 June 1998), author, since 1950". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi: 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u177701. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1 . Retrieved 11 June 2020.

Cookson was portrayed by actress Kerry Browne in the 2018 award-winning film Our Catherine, co-written by Tom Kelly. The Rag Nymph is a historical novel set in the 1840s and 50s in England. Millie is the daughter of two shady people: her mother was forced to turn to prostitution, and her father murdered somebody (he claims in her mother's defense, which is revealed to be a falsehood.) She is adopted by Aggie, the rag woman and grows up with her and Ben, a friend of Aggie's. This is her story. Millie loves Aggie a lot, but unfortunately for her, Millie is very pretty. Too pretty. And a lot of people are interested in her. Aggie and Ben are trying to protect her. They send her to a Catholic school at one point, and then she becomes a nursemaid to a family of six children. Then the jealous lady of the house has Milly and some other random girl summoned down to the basement library so her sons can rape them. In 1983 Katie Mulholland was adapted into a stage musical by composer Eric Boswell and writer-director Ken Hill. Cookson attended the première. [16] Today’s is different from most of the others, because I genuinely love this one. It is a pulpy mess, and I enjoy every second of its cheesy glory. You will be able to tell this soon, but I thought I might as well warn you up front: this one is awesome, and I have the eight thousand photos to prove it! This is The Rag Nymph.But there’s one thing Aggie has not counted on: Millie is a Mary Sue. And nuns apparently do not like Mary Sues WHATSOEVER. She tames them with her Mary Sue-ness, and teaches them to dance like complete idiots out in the middle of the woods. (What is WITH this girl and dancing?) Advance: Philanthropy at Newcastle University" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2011 . Retrieved 5 April 2023. Billington, Michael (6 March 2018). "The Best Man review – Gore Vidal's brutal political dogfight". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018 . Retrieved 2 October 2018.

Siblings that require looking-after: Well, initially Millie is the one who needs looking-after (when you were niiiiiiiine!). Everyone’s grateful for Bingley’s kind attentions except for Ben and his wig, who were practicing being on the cover of an 80s romance novel and are not happy to have been interrupted by some Regency jerk getting thoughts about Millie. Hollywood on Tyne: Catherine Cookson Dramas". bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 February 2006 . Retrieved 17 September 2007. Preview: Frankie Drake Mysteries, "No Friends Like Old Friends" | TV, eh?". www.tv-eh.com. Archived from the original on 8 October 2020 . Retrieved 4 October 2020.Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives. In June 1940, at the age of 34, she married Tom Cookson, a teacher at Hastings Grammar School. After experiencing four miscarriages [8] late in pregnancy, it was discovered she was suffering from a rare vascular disease, [4] telangiectasia, which caused bleeding from the nose, fingers and stomach and resulted in anaemia. A mental breakdown followed the miscarriages, from which it took her a decade to recover. [6] Writing career [ edit ] Thomas, Robert McG Jr. (12 June 1998). "Catherine Cookson, 91, Prolific British Author". The New York Times . Retrieved 15 January 2018.