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Dr Catherine Irvine Gavin was an actress and singer, war correspondent, and historical novelist. Gavin was born in 1907, in Aberdeen and studied history and English at the University of Aberdeen, graduating with first-class honours.〔 After obtaining a doctorate on Louis Philippe of France, in 1931, she took up positions as a history lecturer at the Aberdeen and at the University of Glasgow.〔 She stood as a Unionist candidate in two parliamentary elections in the 1930s, but without success.〔 During World War II, she worked in France and the Netherlands for Kemsley Newspapers.〔 after the war, she married American advertising executive John Ashcraft and moved to the United States with him.〔 they were together until his death in 1998. Gavin's works (described by FictionDB as "historical romances") include the following: *King Kill *Clyde Valley (1938) *The Hostile Shore (1940) *The Black Milestone (1941) *The Mountain of Light (1944) *Madeleine (1957) *The Cactus and the Crown (1962) *The Fortress (1964) *The Moon Into Blood (1966) *The Devil in Harbour (1968) *The House of War (1970) *Give Me the Daggers (1972) *The Snow Mountain (1973) *Traitors' Gate (1976) *None Dare Call It Treason (1978; set during World War II) *How Sleep the Brave (1980) *The Sunset Dream (1984) *A Light Woman (1986) *A Dawn of Splendour (1989) *The French Fortune (1991) She appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme ''Desert Island Discs'' on 24 June 1978. The University of Aberdeen awarded her an honorary D Litt in 1986.〔 The Catherine Gavin Room there is named in her honour.〔 The university has a 1940 portrait of her, in oil, by Elizabeth Mary Watt. She died in 2001, aged 92.〔 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catherine Gavin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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