Cotton Factory Shorts

<p>Ethel Carnie Holdsworth contributed these short pieces to <em>The Cotton Factory Times</em> a weekly newspaper published from Ashton-under-Lyne outside Manchester. </p><p>Anecdotal vignettes reflecting the social structure of mill workers' lives they date from 1906 when she was still working as a mill girl until after World War I. </p><p>They are written in local dialect adding depth to their illustration of the difficulties of mill-workers and their families rather than attempting to impose an alien literary style. </p>