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

本博士与艺术委托机构Mid Pennine arts （MPA）合作，探讨了兰开夏郡磨坊女工Ethel Carnie Holdsworth（1886-1962）的激进著作和遗产。卡尼·霍尔兹沃斯是一位多产的实验作家，他的作品涉及新闻、连环小说、儿童文学、诗歌和政治等多种体裁。她是英国最早出版小说的工人阶级女性之一（《无人小姐》，1913年），并以激进的社会主义女权主义者而闻名。在我们当前政治两极分化、社会和经济差距加剧的时代，当代地区观众开始意识到卡尼·霍尔兹沃斯作为作家的大胆，以及她的作品对现代性关键范式的挑战。本博士课程将首次对卡尼·霍尔兹沃思激进的文学作品、出版史和创作影响进行重新评估，为公众迫切需要更多地了解工人阶级写作的动态、多样化的历史做出贡献。研究问题和方法-卡尼·霍尔兹沃斯的实验创意输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《棉纺厂时报》）写的文章对她的长篇小说和写作生涯有什么影响？-卡尼·霍尔兹沃斯的作品对大众激进主义的更广泛理解有何贡献？卡尼·霍尔兹沃思是如何受到当地互动、城乡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不稳定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？-什么是目前参与和重新想象卡尼·霍尔兹沃思的写作为新观众的性质？当地和全国的观众如何更多地参与她的工作？她激进的、争论性的实验是否有助于为今天的读者重新评估工人阶级的写作模式？该项目体现了监督团队的优势，采用了混合的方法，包括档案和书目研究，以及创造性实践。通过与MPA和他们的Pendle radical项目的共同监督，学生将参与创造性/批判性的实践，包括与当地社区分享有关卡尼·霍尔兹沃斯的知识和研究。作为这个已有团队的一部分，学生将有机会接触到探索卡尼·霍尔兹沃思作品的创意从业者（即喜剧演员/剧作家露丝·考克伯恩、民谣歌手/历史学家詹妮弗·里德和东兰开夏郡号角合唱团），并与已经在大哈伍德和奥斯瓦尔德威斯特尔（海恩本）、布莱克本、伯恩利和彭德尔对卡尼·霍尔兹沃思感兴趣的当地观众建立联系。研究背景在过去的十年中，卡尼·霍尔兹沃思的作品被重新带回到公共领域，通过重印她的主要小说，以及MPA和其他地区创意机构改编她的作品。然而，尽管努力恢复，卡尼·霍尔兹沃斯激进的写作和她对传统的偏离所产生的重大影响仍然不为人所知，而且由于她作为“报纸小说家”的全部产出——在不同的期刊媒体上写作——尚未被量化，这一事实也阻碍了这一影响。在埃克塞特大学数字人文学科实验室的支持下，这个项目旨在通过一个在线数据库首次将这一问题绘制成图表并向公众开放，从而纠正这一问题。卡尼·霍尔兹沃思与合作社、女权主义、选举权和社会主义媒体的广泛接触。博士学位将在学术研究的几个动态领域中定位和研究卡尼·霍尔兹沃思的作品，有助于重新燃起对工人阶级写作史和工人阶级诗歌和期刊研究的学术兴趣。

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.