Poems

Ethel Carnie and Ethel Mary Smyth’s ‘3 Songs’ (1913)

admin December 2, 2017 4

My post on ‘William Hall Burnett and the mill girl poet, Ethel Carnie’ elicited a comment from Helen Pankhurst, friend of my daughter Claire Burnett. Helen is the great- granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), the grand-daughter of Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) and Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958) was her great-aunt – all pioneers in the Woman’s Suffragette Movement. …

Poem – ‘Return of the C.I.V.’

admin November 10, 2017November 11, 2017 2

William Hall Burnett wrote poetry throughout his life but as George Hull mentions in an anthology he edited and published in 1902 – ‘Unfortunately, Mr Burnett has not kept copies of many of his poems, and this circumstance prevents me giving an adequate or representative selection’[1]. He was also very poor at providing the dates …