Songs of a Factory Girl: Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and Radical Working-Class Women's Writing

这个博士探索兰开夏磨坊妇女埃塞尔·卡尼·霍尔兹沃斯(1886-1962)的激进著作和遗产，与艺术委托机构Mid Pennine Art(MPA)合作。卡尼·霍尔兹沃斯是一位多产的实验性作家，涉及各种体裁，包括新闻、连载小说、儿童文学、诗歌和政治。她是英国最早出版小说的工人阶级女性之一(无名氏小姐，1913年)，并以激进的社会主义女权主义者而闻名。在我们这个政治两极分化、社会和经济差距日益扩大的时代，当代地区的观众开始意识到卡妮·霍尔兹沃斯作为一名作家的大胆，以及她的作品对现代性关键范式的挑战。这一博士学位将首次对卡尼·霍尔兹沃斯的激进文学作品、出版史和创造性影响进行重新评估，从而促进公众对更多地接触动态、多样化的工人阶级写作历史的迫切需求。研究问题和方法-卡尼·霍尔兹沃斯实验性创造性产出的程度和影响是什么？她为期刊(包括罗伯特·布拉奇福德的《女工》、合作社的《米尔盖特月刊》和《棉花厂时报》)的写作对她较长的小说作品和写作生涯有何影响？-卡妮·霍尔兹沃斯的写作如何有助于更广泛地理解流行的激进主义？卡妮·霍兹沃斯是如何受到当地互动、乡村和城市知识中心以及东兰开夏郡文学遗产的影响的？-卡尼·霍尔兹沃斯的生活方式和早产对她的写作和出版生涯有什么影响？在她的作品中，地点(农村和城市)和流动性的意义是什么？-卡妮·霍尔兹沃斯目前的参与和重新想象面向新受众的本质是什么？当地和全国的观众如何才能更多地参与她的作品？她的激进、争议性的实验是否有助于为今天的观众重新评估工人阶级写作的模式？该项目采用了一种混合的方法，包括档案和书目研究，以及创造性的实践，反映了监督团队的力量。通过与MPA和他们的Pendle激进派项目的共同监督，学生将参与创造性/批判性实践，以分享关于Carnie Holdsworth的知识和研究，包括与当地社区。作为这个预先存在的团队的一员，这名学生将有机会接触到探索卡妮·霍尔兹沃斯作品的创意从业者(即喜剧演员兼剧作家露丝·科克本、侧面民谣歌手兼历史学家珍妮弗·里德和东兰开夏克莱恩合唱团)，并与当地观众建立联系，这些观众已经对卡尼·霍尔兹沃斯在《大哈伍德与奥斯瓦德特威斯尔》(Hyndburn)、布莱克本、伯恩利和彭德尔的作品感兴趣。在过去的十年里，卡尼·霍尔德斯沃斯的作品通过重印她的关键小说，以及由MPA和其他地区创意机构改编的作品，重新回到了公共领域。然而，尽管努力恢复，卡妮·霍尔兹沃斯激进的写作方式和她打破传统的重大影响仍然不是广为人知的，而且她作为一名报纸小说家的全部产出--在一家不同的期刊媒体上写作--还没有得到量化。在埃克塞特数字人文实验室的支持下，该项目旨在纠正这一问题，通过在线数据库首次将卡妮·霍尔兹沃斯广泛参与合作社、女权主义、选举权和社会主义媒体的情况公之于众。该博士将在几个动态的学术研究领域定位和研究卡尼·霍德斯沃斯的全部著作，有助于重新激发人们对工人阶级写作和工人阶级诗歌和期刊研究历史的学术兴趣。

This PhD explores the radical writings and legacy of Lancashire mill-woman, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886-1962), in collaboration with arts commissioning agency Mid Pennine Arts (MPA). Carnie Holdsworth was a prolific, experimental writer across a variety of genres including journalism, serial fiction, children's literature, poetry and politics. She is one of the first working-class women in England to publish a novel (Miss Nobody, 1913) and became renowned as a radical socialist feminist. At our current time of political polarisation and increased social and economic disparities, contemporary regional audiences are becoming aware of Carnie Holdsworth's audacity as a writer and the challenge her works present tokey paradigms of modernity. This PhD will offer the first reassessment of Carnie Holdsworth's radical literary works, publishing history, and creative impact, contributing to urgent public demand for greater access to the dynamic, diverse history of working-class writing.Research questions and methods - What was the extent and impact of Carnie Holdsworth's experimental creative output? How did her writing for periodicals (including Robert Blatchford's The Woman Worker, the Co-operative's Millgate Monthly, and The Cotton Factory Times)impact her longer works of fiction and writing career?- How does Carnie Holdsworth's writing contribute to broader understandings of popular radicalism? How was Carnie Holdsworth influenced by local interactions, rural and urban intellectual hubs, as well as East Lancashire's literary legacy?- What effects did Carnie Holdsworth's lifestyle and precarity have on her writing and publishing career? What is the significance of place (rural and urban) and mobility in her work?- What is the nature of current engagement and re-imagining of Carnie Holdsworth's writing for new audiences? How can local and national audiences engage with more of her work? Does her radical, polemical experimentation help re-evaluate models of working-class writing for today's audiences?Reflecting the strengths of the supervisory team, the project adopts a mixed methodology, including archival and bibliographic research, and creative practice. Through co-supervision with MPA and their Pendle Radicals project, the student will engage in creative/critical practice to share knowledge and research on Carnie Holdsworth, including with local communities. Working as part of this pre-existing team, the student will have access to creative practitioners exploring Carnie Holdsworth's work (i.e. comedian/playwright Ruth Cockburn, broadside ballad singer/historian Jennifer Reid, and the East Lancashire Clarion Choir) and links to local audiences already interested in Carnie Holdsworth in Great Harwood and Oswaldtwistle (Hyndburn), Blackburn, Burnley and Pendle.Research contextOver the last decade, Carnie Holdsworth's writing has been brought back into the public domain through reprints of her key novels and the adaptation of her work by MPA and other regional creative agencies. Yet despite recovery efforts, the significant impact of Carnie Holdsworth's radical body of writing and her departure from convention is still not widely known and is hampered by the fact that her full output as a 'newspaper novelist' -writing across a disparate periodical press - has not been quantified. With support from Exeter's Digital Humanities Lab, this project aims to redress this by charting and making publicly accessible for the first time via an online database Carnie Holdsworth's extensive engagement with the co-operative, feminist, suffrage and socialist press.The PhD will locate and examine Carnie Holdsworth's oeuvre within several dynamic areas of academic research, contributing to renewed scholarly interest in the history of working-class writing and working-class poetry and periodical studies.