• ISBN13: 9781849211369
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Kennedy & Boyd
• Publisher Imprint: Kennedy & Boyd
• Publication Date: January 17, 2019
• Pages: 250
• Original Price: USD 19.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 295 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Women

It is not for nothing that Belinda's father called her "The General". Belinda could marshal and control more than armies--she could control the people about her. Belinda's father dies and she is left with an ailing mother to support. But nothing daunted, she sells up their beloved home and sets out on her long Odyssey of domestic service.There surely never was a domestic servant like Belinda. Staving off irate butchers when there is no money to pay them, helping elopements, protecting down-trodden wives, become every-day occurrences in Belinda's life, through which her extreme good-nature and sense of humour carry her in triumph.

Holdsworth, Ethel Carnie: - Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886-1962) was a working-class writer and socialist activist who campaigned for social and economic justice and the rights of working-class men and women. A poet, journalist, writer for children, and novelist, she worked in the Lancashire cotton mills from the age of eleven until her early twenties. She left the mills through the patronage of the popular socialist author and Clarion leader, Robert Blatchford (1851-1943), and worked as a journalist in London and as a teacher at Bebel House Women's College and Socialist Education Centre, before returning back North to her roots. She had two daughters and edited the Clear Light, the organ of the National Union for Combating Fascism, with her husband from their home in the 1920s. She wrote at least ten novels, making her a rare example of a female working-class novelist.

Smalley, Roger: - Roger Smalley is a retired teacher whose publications include Breaking the Bonds of Capitalism: the political vision of a Lancashire mill girl (Lancaster University, 2014). He is currently working on a history of the Clitheroe parliamentary constituency which relates Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's activities to the wider tradition of dissent in north Lancashire.