Tag: Songs of a Factory Girl

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. …

William Hall Burnett and the mill girl poet, Ethel Carnie

admin September 14, 2017October 3, 2017 6

This post describes the relationship between William and the mill-girl poet Ethel Carnie. I am grateful for the interest shown by Roger Smalley and for sending me copies of material concerning Ethel Carnie and William from the Blackburn Library (see Bibliography). Roger has documented the political life of Ethel Carnie in ‘Breaking the Bonds of …