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Cotton Factory Shorts
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| Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. With an Introduction by Jackie Thompson and Jennifer Reid |
| ISBN 9781849212472 |
| SERIES Ethel Carnie Holdsworth |
| Paperback |
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| Published March 2024
UK Price £14.95
US Price $19.95 |
Ethel Carnie (1886-1962) was a working-class writer and socialist activist who campaigned for social and economic justice and the rights of working-class men and women.
She worked in the Lancashire cotton mills from the age of eleven until her early twenties.
Cotton Shorts brings together for the first time short stories written and published between 1906 and 1920 in The Cotton Factory Times, a newspaper published in Manchester and printed in Ashton-under-Lyne.
The stories are deeply embedded in the daily existence of the Mill workers and their families.
Included are: The professor’s latest star; Old Jim’s Last Looms; A bunch of white chrysanthemums; Was It Her Duty?; The Reed-hook maker’s daughter; The letter marked “Private”; A modern atonement; Tim Reed’s stocking; Ducks; The open door; The advent of the dog; The Lucky Sixpence; Benny’s love affair; Nancy’s bad fortune; ‘Lijah and Nancy and the fruit tree; Sarah’s chap; The broken spell; Corner Shops; Jerry’s courtship; Old Tom’s Christmas box; The Penny Goose; Tom Bobbin’s revenge; “Engaged”; Miss Strange’s Christmas; John o’ Bobs’ last pint; Ruth’s Burglar; Courage and Dick’s Anconas
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