Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Broschiertes Buch

The Marriage of Elizabeth

Beschreibung

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, makes the same commitment, and a reluctant proposal ensues, which is accepted. Realising John's aversion to the marriage, however, Elizabeth's pride is enflamed, and she fulfils her obligation only on the condition that she works as his housekeeper, for wages, rather than acting as husband and wife where no love exists. -From the Introduction

Autor

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (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. A poet, journalist, writer for children, and novelist, she worked in the Lancashire cotton mills from the age of eleven until her early twenties. She left the mills through the patronage of the popular socialist author and Clarion leader, Robert Blatchford (1851-1943), and worked as a journalist in London and as a teacher at Bebel House Women's College and Socialist Education Centre, before returning back North to her roots. She had two daughters and edited the Clear Light, the organ of the National Union for Combating Fascism, with her husband from their home in the 1920s. She wrote at least ten novels, making her a rare example of a female working-class novelist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kennedy & Boyd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781849212526
• ISBN-10: 184921252X
• Artikelnr.: 73401265