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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
It is not enough to say that Ethel Carnie Holdsworth was a radical, and her novels express that. There is a broader narrative to her writing that relates to the…
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The second novel to be brought back into print in The Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Series, a collection and study of her writings that explores the author’s contribution to British working-class…
First published in 1920, this a story of a young woman of grit, grace and gumption attempting to do good.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
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This powerful novel tells the story of Nan, a young working-class woman in early 20th century England who is forced to navigate the challenges of poverty, discrimination, and domestic abuse…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This first collected edition of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's fairy tales contributes significantly to both our knowledge of her work and the history of the fairy tale as a genre. As…
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth contributed these short pieces to The Cotton Factory Times, a weekly newspaper published from Ashton-under-Lyne, outside Manchester.
Anecdotal vignettes, reflecting the social structure of mill workers' lives…
In 1919 Ethel Carnie Holdsworth published her third novel, The Taming of Nan.
At this point in her career, Carnie Holdsworth was an established author with one notable success, Helen…
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's 1925 novel, This Slavery, is a radical feminist and socialist tale of love, loss, poverty and politics. The action follows two sisters, mill-girls Hester and Rachel Martin…
The third novel to be brought back into print in The Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Series, edited by Dr Nicola Wilson, a collection and study of the author’s writings that explores…
I think it no exaggeration to say that all my poems came into my head at the mill. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, 1907.
