This Slavery by Rickard, Scarlett

This Slavery

Adapted from a novel by the radical feminist poet and author Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, this compelling, multilayered,...
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Author: Scarlett Rickard
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Language: English
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This Slavery by Rickard, Scarlett

This Slavery

$23.99

This Slavery

$23.99
Author: Scarlett Rickard
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Adapted from a novel by the radical feminist poet and author Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, this compelling, multilayered, and sumptuously designed dramatic romance plays out against the starkly observed realities of what it was to grow up female in prewar industrial Britain

When the Lancashire cotton mill that employs them burns to the ground, sisters Rachel and Hester Martin are each forced to find their own way to survive in the harsh realities of prewar industrial Britain. The contrasting paths they take in their quest for domestic autonomy form a subtly strident allegory of the all-but-insurmountable barriers of class and gender that then enslaved half the population. Part compelling narrative epic, part fiery Marxist-feminist polemic, this faithful, sumptuous, and revelatory adaptation by the award-winning Rickard Sisters reclaims a lost classic by holding it up as a mirror to our own hard times, and as a gloriously flaming beacon to future communities to offer strength, hope, and dignity.

Author: Scarlett Rickard
Publisher: Selfmadehero
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.70w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781914224355


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/20/2025
Booklist 11/01/2025

About the Author
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886-1962), a writer, feminist and activist from Lancashire, was the first working-class woman to have a novel published in Britain. She had a least ten novels published and wrote This Slavery in 1925. The Rickard Sisters, Scarlett and Sophie, are graphic novelists from the same Lancashire cotton country as Ethel Holdsworth, and have collaborated on adapting a series of early 20th-century political novels in their own lavish trademark style, including The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and No Surrender. Scarlett is the artist and Sophie is the writer, and despite living 200 miles apart, they work closely together to perfect the development of these rich, vibrant, and inspirational books.

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