Four new additions to the
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Collection

Barbara Dennison

The London lives of Barbara and Crichie Dennison and their acquaintances Flora and Fred Peachley are juxtaposed with rural Rimton, where Barbara's long-time companion and village blacksmith Dave Reid resides with the pair's foster parents, Sarah and Dan Farmer...

Eagle's Crag

Eagles' Crag is a gothic horror, set like Helen of Four Gates on an isolated farm, though this time the location has shifted from the brooding Pendle Hill with its associated history of witchcraft, to West Yorkshire. ...

The Marriage of Elizabeth

Departing from the conventional marriage-as-resolution structure of the romance plot, Carnie Holdsworth marries her protagonists in the sixth chapter of seventeen, under somewhat unusual circumstances....

The Quest of the Golden Garter

Ethel Holdsworth, well known as the author of Helen of Four Gates, will interest a large public with her new novel. The story of a girl, a thief's accomplice, in the "underworld," the plot strikes a note of novelty... (The original cover text)