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Barbara Roster Weymouth and other stories
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
ISBN 978184921234
SERIES Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
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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.
Barbara Roster Weymouth brings together for the first time short stories written and published between 1913 and 1935. The titles reflect a strong link with her roots, with occasional forays into other experiences.
Included are: Tilly,a life-study; Tum o’ Bill’s writes his wife; Agnes; Molly o’ Bills and the Queen; The Lady; The Mill Mother; Their Fates; The Unmaking of a Mother; End o’ the World; The Star; Gentleman Joe; Listening In; Barbara Roster Weymouth; A Lancashire Yesterday; The Vendetta; Ironies; A Proletarian Ghost; Sea Mist; The Debt; Over the Broom: A tale of Lancashire love; The Ghost Driver; The Guarantee; Louis Durand; The Last Laugh; The Windfall; A Symphony in Gold and Bert comes home.



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