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The Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Collection

Series Editors: Jenny Harper and Nicola Wilson, University of Reading.


The rediscovery of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's writings has taken decades, and scholars and readers are just beginning to appreciate the scope of her achievements.

Carnie Holdsworth is recognized as the first working-class woman novelist in the UK and the first to sustain a long and varied writing career.

Her literary output is impressive: she published three books of poetry, four books of original fairy tales, and thirteen novels as well as numerous poems, short stories, and journalistic pieces in newspapers and magazines.

She was also a political activist, engaged in the union and women's suffrage movements.

Her political beliefs were independent and prescient: she was an ardent pacifist and internationalist and, in 1924, cofounded the National Union for Combating Fascism, the first anti-fascist organisation in the UK.

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Title Author ISBN UK Price US Price
Barbara Dennison Ethel Carnie Holdsworth 9781849212489 £14.95 $19.95
Barbara Roster Weymouth and other stories Ethel Carnie Holdsworth 9781849212434 £14.95 $19.95
Collected Poems: Rhymes from the Factory (with additions); Songs of a Factory Girl; Voices of Womanhood Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. Introduction by Patricia E. Johnson 9781849212120 £16.95 $24.95
Collected Original Fairy Tales Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. With an Introduction by Patricia E. Johnson 9781849212397 £14.95 $19.95
Cotton Factory Shorts Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. With an Introduction by Jackie Thompson and Jennifer Reid 9781849212472 £14.95 $19.95
Down Poverty Street Ethel Carnie Holdsworth 9781849212465 £14.95 $19.95
Eagle's Crag Ethel Carnie Holdsworth 9781849212496 £14.95 $19.95
Equality Island Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. With an Introduction by Michael Crowley 9781849212427 £14.95 $19.95
General Belinda Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. With an introduction by Roger Smalley 9781849211369 £14.95 $19.95
Helen of Four Gates Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. With an introduction by Pamela Fox 9781849211284 £14.95 $19.95
Miss Nobody Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (as Ethel Carnie) 9781849211277 £14.95 $19.95
The Great Experiment Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. With an Introduction by Florence Boos 9781849212519 £14.95 $19.95
The House That Jill Built Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. With an Introduction by Jenny Harper, Fiona Kay Hornby, Tess McMahon, Barbara Sanders, and Janet Swan 9781849212182 £17.95 $24.95
The Marriage of Elizabeth Ethel Carnie Holdsworth 9781849212526 £14.95 $19.95
The Quest of the Golden Garter Ethel Carnie Holdsworth 9781849212533 £14.95 $19.95
The Taming of Nan Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. With an introduction by Pat Johnson 9781849212366 £14.95 $19.95
This Slavery Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. With an introduction by Nicola Wilson 9781849212335 £16.99 $21.95

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