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 |
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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
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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 |