Author: Karen Cushman
Translator: Jeong-in Lee
Publisher: Saenggakgwa Neukkim
Hardcover | 328 pages | 195*137mm
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About This Book
Karen Cushman has a long-standing interest in history. Growing tired of
hearing about kings, princes, generals, and presidents, she wanted to
know what life was like for ordinary young people in other times. Her
research into medieval English history and culture led to the writing of
Catherine, Called Birdy, her first work.
Contained in this program is Catherine's diary -- Catherine, called
Little Bird or Birdy, daughter of Rollo and the lady Aislinn, sister to
Thomas, Edward, and the abominable Robert.
Begun this 12th day of September in the year of Our Lord 1290...I am
commanded to write an account of my days. I am bit by fleas and plagued
by family...Tangled my spinning again. Corpus bones, what a
torture...Spent two hours embroidering a cloth for the church and three
hours picking out the stitches after my mother saw it...Picked off
twenty-nine fleas today.
Catherine's mother wants to teach her the skills of the lady of the
manor and to prepare her to be a gentle and patient wife. Her father
wants only to see her married off, and profitably. Catherine fancies
herself a painter, a Crusader, a maker of songs, a peddler, a minstrel,
a monk, a wart charmer...Of all the possibilities, she has ruled out
only one: being sold like cheese to the highest bidder.
Against a vivid backdrop of everyday life on a medieval English manor,
Catherine's earthy, spirited account of her fourteenth year is a richly
entertaining story with an utterly unforgettable heroine.
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