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New book announcement

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s Helen of Four Gates (1917) This is a new edition of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s Helen of Four Gates (1917) – her bestselling second novel, originally published under the pseudonym ‘The Ex-Mill Girl’. As Pamela Fox makes clear … Continue reading

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Our student on Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and re-publication

Cariad Williams, 3rd year English Literature and European Literature and Culture student writes: It was a pleasure to be involved in the process of re-publishing Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s Helen of Four Gates, not least because the novel itself is an … Continue reading

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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Nicola Wilson writes: One hundred years ago today, on the 4th September 1913, Methuen published what is believed to be one of the first novels by a British working-class woman. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886-1962) was a mill girl, brought up … Continue reading

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Nicola Wilson talks to the BBC

  Ethel Carnie Holdsworth on the radio I went up to Blackburn on Tuesday to do a studio interview on Radio Lancashire about the mill girl author, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886-1962). As so much of academia is about the long-game, … Continue reading

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