The Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Collection

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The Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Collection

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	9781849212427	£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	9781849212489	£14.95	$19.95
Eagle's Crag	Ethel Carnie Holdsworth	9781849212496	£14.95	$19.95
Equality Island	Ethel Carnie Holdsworth	9781849212502	£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	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