Literature-Famous novel

[Pentagon]

In which famous novel did 25 year-old 'Katherine ' die along with her baby in childbirth on 1 April 1898?

[Chinajan]

Sounds like Goodbye Mr Chips.

[Pentagon]

Thanks for the suggestion Chinajan.I believe.Katherine died tragically during the blitz of 1940 in "Goodbye Mr Chips "

[Chinajan]

Umm, hardly. It was published in 1934, before anyone had heard of the blitz. Set in Victorian and Edwardian England. Perhaps you are thinking of the Robert Donat movie version?

[Chinajan]

On second thoughts, that movie was before the blitz, too.

[smorodina]

She died in the blitz in the 1969 remake of the film. In the original novel she died in childbirth.

[Pentagon]

My apologies for doubting your superior knowledge Chinajan! My memory of the 1969 film is obviously better than that of the book'My thanks also to Smoradina for reminding me.

[SJmacleod]

It could possibly be 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

[katiesara]

I thought it was something by Thomas Hardy - have just tried Google and not come up with anything though!

[treaclefight]

i was on same wavelength as you katie, 'Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd' is the book we were thinking of, poor flaxen haired woman staggering into the village on a dark and stormy night, already most of the way through labour. i did type alot more about this but have deleted it, it's all very tragic and you can read the book if you want (terence stamp is incredicle in the film).

[Chinajan]

The woman who dies in childbirth in Far from the Madding Crowd is called Fanny. The novel is set in the mid-nineteenth century. The heroine's name in Wuthering Heights is spelt Catherine, not Katherine. That book was set in the late 18th, not 19th, century. And, yes, Terence Stamp was utterly gorge as Sergeant Troy. Yum.

[Primrose]

In Wuthering Heights Catherine Earnshaw Linton dies in child birth but the baby doesn't. It's a girl also named Catherine who eventually marries Heathcliffes son Linton.