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Collected Original Fairy Tales
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
ISBN 9781849212397
SERIES Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
Paperback  
 
Published May 2024    UK Price £14.95    US Price $19.95   

Ethel Carnie (1886-1962) was a working-class writer and socialist activist who campaigned for social and economic justice and the rights of working-class men and women.
She worked in the Lancashire cotton mills from the age of eleven until her early twenties.

This volume brings together the stories from four booklets published between 1911 and 1913. The stories are:
The Basket of Violets - The Thrush Takes Singing Lessons - Through the Silent Forest to the Land of Love - Golden Lily, A Princess who married a Mandarin - The King’s Fool - Lazy-Land - The Swinging Princess - The Story of the Goldfishes - The Three Sons, Or, The Secret of Success in Life - Little Blue Cloak - The Magic Shoe - The Little Wife - The King’s Jester - The Three Sisters - The Lamp Girl - The Stubborn Pine-Tree - The Two Sisters - The Adventures of Simon and the Gray Goat - The Romantic Cavalier - The Water-rats’ Wedding - Billy in Rainy Land - The Ferocious Door-knocker and The Blind Prince




 

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