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  • The Quest of the Golden Garter
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    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. Lydia Carstairs falls into the hands of a crook, whom she marries and who bends her to his will. Lydia hates her mode of living, but she cannot escape from it.By ch...
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    22,83 €

  • Barbara Dennison
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    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. Book One introduces the Dennisons, who, despite being newly married are already aware of a widening chasm between them...
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    21,90 €

  • Eagles’ Crag
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    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. Eagle’s Crag is the name of a rocky promontory high above a steep-sided valley, about one mile west of Todmorden. In profile it resembles an eagle, its wings partl...
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    22,08 €

  • The Marriage of Elizabeth
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    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. Nursing her dying neighbour, Elizabeth Peel promises to marry the young woman’s widow, and to help him raise their baby daughter. Unbeknownst to Elizabeth, said widow, John Stone...
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    21,69 €

  • Equality island
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    It is not enough to say that Ethel Carnie Holdsworth was a radical, and her novels express that. There is a broader narrative to her writing that relates to the development of her politics, her reaction to domestic and world events, and contemporary political thinking in socialist circles. Equality Island is a case in point. It was serialised in The Daily Herald at a time when ...
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    21,62 €

  • Cotton Factory Shorts
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth contributed these short pieces to The Cotton Factory Times, a weekly newspaper published from Ashton-under-Lyne, outside Manchester. Anecdotal vignettes, reflecting the social structure of mill workers’ lives, they date from 1906, when she was still working as a mill girl, until after World War I. They are written in local dialect, adding depth to their ...
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    19,86 €

  • Collected Original Fairy Tales
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    This first collected edition of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s fairy tales contributes significantly to both our knowledge of her work and the history of the fairy tale as a genre. As a working-class woman writer, her stories represent work, class, and gender in ways that are startlingly different to what is found in many well-known fairy tales. Speaking out of the experiences of he...
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    19,83 €

  • This Slavery
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s 1925 novel, This Slavery, is a radical feminist and socialist tale of love, loss, poverty and politics. The action follows two sisters, mill-girls Hester and Rachel Martin, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when a fire at the mill leaves them unemployed. As the material poverty of their home-life deepens and the girls are forced to confront the diffi...
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    23,97 €

  • The Taming of Nan
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    In 1919 Ethel Carnie Holdsworth published her third novel, The Taming of Nan.At this point in her career, Carnie Holdsworth was an established author with one notable success, Helen of Four Gates (1917), to her credit. As was typical of her, she did not try to replicate her recent success; instead, The Taming of Nan explored new territory, addressing the issues of fair compensa...
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    22,03 €

  • The House That Jill Built
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    Former 'mill girl', Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, wrote this book with a clear mission: believing that in reading stories about working people doing what they could to change things, hearts and minds could be turned towards a better society. In 1910 Ethel Carnie (as she was then) said that the most difficult task 'is to teach people to want something better, to sting them into rebel...
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    27,70 €

  • Collected Poems
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    Now widely recognized as a novelist and essayist, working-class writer Ethel Carnie Holdsworth first published as a poet.  The three books collected here demonstrate her growth in this genre from her early poems, written when she worked full time in the mill, to her last book of poetry, Voices of Womanhood, which realizes her mature insights into the lives of working-class wome...
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    27,56 €

  • General Belinda
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    It is not for nothing that Belinda’s father called her 'The General”. Belinda could marshal and control more than armies—she could control the people about her. Belinda’s father dies and she is left with an ailing mother to support. But nothing daunted, she sells up their beloved home and sets out on her long Odyssey of domestic service.There surely never was a domestic servant...
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    20,05 €

  • Helen of Four Gates
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    In this, her bestselling second novel, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth adapts a formula popularised by the Bronte sisters to write a tale of dark and gothic romance set in the Lancashire hills. First published anonymously in 1917 amid the tumult of World War I, the novel quickly achieved strong sales in Britain and the US. By 1920 the author was working with Cecil Hepworth, a lauded pi...
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    22,02 €

  • The Taming of Nan
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    35,63 €

  • Helen Of Four Gates
    Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,43 €