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  1. Carswell's Open the Door! finally appeared in 1920 and won her a 250-guinea (£262.10s) Andrew Melrose Prize. Without being autobiographical, her story of the Glaswegian Joanna resembles in many ways her own life in search of independence.

  2. The Federal Medical Center, Carswell (FMC Carswell) is a United States federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, for female inmates of all security levels, primarily with special medical and mental health needs.

  3. Catherine Carswell was bom in 1879, brought up in Glasgow by prosperous and religious middle-class parents she later described as a ‘simple and philistine family’. From an early age Carswell perceived herself - and her family because of their evangelical fervour - as alien to their environment.

  4. Mar 7, 2021 · Carswell would write Open The Door, a ground-breaking and highly-autobiographical novel about a young woman’s sexual awakening and strivings for independence, pen a controversial, landmark...

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  5. Jun 10, 2019 · Lawrence and Carswell had hit it off immediately upon meeting in London in the summer of 1914, when she showed him her autobiographical novel-in-progress, Open the Door! At twenty-eight, Lawrence was nearly seven years Carswell’s junior, but he’d already published three novels.

  6. Carswell’s two novels - “Open the Door!”, which won the Melrose prize for fiction in 1920, and “The Camomile” of 1922, written in epistolary and journal form (8) - are autobiographical works in which the actions of the principal female protagonists challenge conventional social mores.

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  8. Although Catherine Carswell achieved fame for her biography of Robert Burns, her two novels Open the Door! (1920) and The Camomile: An Invention (1922) have, in the past twenty years, resurfaced...

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