![]() Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call-by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all.Unfortunately, he is also the richest. Through Catherines diary, Karen Cushman gives a view of life in medieval England, including its fleas, crude manners, squalor and the special treat o. In 1290, her 14th year, Catherine begins a diary that quickly fills with the irrepressible joys and frustrations of her days. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man-any rich man, no mater how awful.But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. A contemporary writer of historical fiction for young adults, Karen Cushman considers herself to be a 'late bloomer. ![]() Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father? Deus Not if Catherine has anything to say about it Catherine feels trapped. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call-by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all. But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. ![]() ![]() Her father is determined to marry her off to arich man-any rich man, no matter how awful. ![]() "Corpus Bones I utterly loathe my life."Catherine feels trapped. ![]()
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