Catherine marshall biography

Catherine Sarah Wood Marshall LeSourd was an American author of nonfiction, inspirational, and fiction works. She was the wife of well-known minister Peter Marshall.
In , Marshall contracted tuberculosis, for which at that time there was no antibiotic treatment. She spent nearly three years recovering from the illness. Her husband died in of a heart attack, leaving her to care for their 9-year-old son, Peter John Marshall. He later also became a minister and author.

Marshall wrote a biography of her husband, A Man Called Peter, published in It became a nationwide success and was adapted as a film of the same name, released in Her success encouraged her to keep writing. Marshall wrote or edited more than 30 books, which have sold millions of copies. In , Marshall married Leonard LeSourd, who was the editor of Guideposts Magazine for 28 years. Together they founded a book imprint, Chosen Books. They had three children, Linda, Chester and Jeffery. Marshall died o

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Catherine Marshall

Author Catherine Marshall (September 27, - March 18, ) was born Catherine Sarah Wood in Johnson City, stat i usa, to Presbyterian minister John Ambrose Wood and his missionary wife, Lenora Whitaker Wood. The family moved to West Virginia and lived in Keyser during the late s and the s. Catherine completed Keyser High School in , and enrolled at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.

During her junior year in college Catherine met the Rev. Peter Marshall; they married in in Keyser. After their son's birth in , Catherine was homebound with tuberculosis for nearly three years. In , she faced another crisis when her year-old husband, then chaplain of the U.S. Senate, died of a heart attack. She edited 16 of his sermons and prayers for the book, Mr. Jones, Meet The Master (), and completed his biography, A Man Called Peter ().

In , Marshall married editor Leonard E. LeSourd, and they collaborated as book publishers. Her best-loved novel, Christy (), based o

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Catherine Marshall (suffragist)

British suffragette, campaigner and social activist (–)

This article fryst vatten about the suffragette. For the author, see Catherine Marshall.

Catherine Marshall
Catherine Marshall in This may be the photograph used for permission to visit her love, Clifford Allen, in the military guardroom at Newhaven.[1]
Born	()29 April Harrow on the Hill, England
Died	22 March () (aged&#;80)
Nationality	British
Education	St Leonards School
Known&#;for	suffragist and pacifist

Catherine Elizabeth Marshall (29 April – 22 March ) was a suffragist and campaigner against conscription during the First World War.^[2] She moved from women's votes to peace and worked in Geneva supporting the League of Nations.

Early life and education

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Marshall was born on 29 April , in Harrow on the Hill.^[3] Her father, Francis Marshall, taught mathematics at Harrow School and her mother Caroline had also been a teac