DR. A. J. CRONIN’S EARLY STRUGGLES

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 160, 1 April 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)

DR. A. J. CRONIN’S EARLY STRUGGLES

Il is generally known that Dr. A. ,1. Cronin'had to'pass through a period of hardship at the outset of his career. How severe was his struggle for a livelihood at that time is now disclosed in an interview given by bis wife to the "Daily Mail.” She tells us that she made her husband’s acquaintance when they were medical students together in Glasgow. On their marriage they went to a village in South Wales, where they occupied two rooms in a miner’s cottage. One was the surgery and they lived in the other, sharing the use of the kitchen with the miner’s wife.

After a time Dr. Cronin obtained an appointment ns a member of a Government commission to report on conditions in mines. With the savings from his ollichtl salary be bought a medical practice in London, but al the end of three years his health broke down through overwork. He went to lied on a milk diet on a farm in Scotland, and there he wrote “Hatter s Gatstlh.