Recovering Ethel Holdsworth

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Thu, 27/11/2025 - 20:03
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Thu, 27/11/2025 - 22:31

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth should be as famous as Jane Austen. Born in Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire in 1886, she began working part-time in a textile factory at the age of eleven, and full-time from thirteen. She wrote poetry, the rhythm of the looms caught in her metre. A second edition of Rhymes from the Factory (1907) […]