PhD project: Out of the House of Bondage into the Field of Liberty – Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s ‘Red and the Green’.
Funding: SWW DTP Collaborative Doctoral Award.
Supervisors: Dr Nicola Wilson (Reading), Dr Simon Rennie (Exeter), Nick Hunt (Mid-Pennine Arts).
Email: j.harper@pgr.reading.ac.uk
I am a part-time PhD student with the SWW DTP, taking part in the Ethel Carnie Holdsworth collaborative doctoral award. My academic supervisors are Doctor Nicola Wilson (Reading), Doctor Simon Rennie (Exeter), and my non-HEI supervisor is Nick Hunt of Mid Pennine Arts.
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth was one of the first ever published working-class female writers in Britain. A radical Socialist and feminist, she captured much of the social and political change she observed in a hugely varied and important body of work published from 1907 to the 1930s. She was employed as a half-timer at age 11 in the cotton mills of Great Harwood, Lancashire, and although most of her life was spent as a writer and journalist, the poor working-conditions she experienced there drove her desire to change society for the better.
The provisional title for the PhD project is: Out of the House of Bondage into the Field of Liberty- Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s ‘Red and the Green. My research argument considers how ideas of the ‘Red’ (Socialism) and the ‘Green’ (nature and the natural world) appear intrinsically linked within Carnie Holdsworth’s work. The methodology employed will comprise an ecocritical approach, offering fresh perspective.
I completed a BA English/Philosophy at the University of Southampton (2:1) in 1995 and returned to the same university as a mature student in 2018 to complete an MA in English Literary Studies (distinction).
I am a part-time PhD student with the SWW DTP, taking part in the Ethel Carnie Holdsworth collaborative doctoral award. My academic supervisors are Doctor Nicola Wilson (Reading), Doctor Simon Rennie (Exeter), and my non-HEI supervisor is Nick Hunt of Mid Pennine Arts.
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth was one of the first ever published working-class female writers in Britain. A radical Socialist and feminist, she captured much of the social and political change she observed in a hugely varied and important body of work published from 1907 to the 1930s. She was employed as a half-timer at age 11 in the cotton mills of Great Harwood, Lancashire, and although most of her life was spent as a writer and journalist, the poor working-conditions she experienced there drove her desire to change society for the better.
The provisional title for the PhD project is: Out of the House of Bondage into the Field of Liberty- Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s ‘Red and the Green. My research argument considers how ideas of the ‘Red’ (Socialism) and the ‘Green’ (nature and the natural world) appear intrinsically linked within Carnie Holdsworth’s work. The methodology employed will comprise an ecocritical approach, offering fresh perspective.
I completed a BA English/Philosophy at the University of Southampton (2:1) in 1995 and returned to the same university as a mature student in 2018 to complete an MA in English Literary Studies (distinction).