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Eagles' Crag

by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth , Jenny Harper
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781849212496
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Kennedy & Boyd
  • Publisher Imprint: Kennedy & Boyd
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 208
  • Original Price: GBP 14.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 245 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Horror / Psychological

Eagles' Crag is a gothic horror, set like Helen of Four Gates on an isolated farm, though this time the location has shifted from the brooding Pendle Hill with its associated history of witchcraft, to West Yorkshire.

Eagle's Crag is the name of a rocky promontory high above a steep-sided valley, about one mile west of Todmorden. In profile it resembles an eagle, its wings partly outstretched and its beak jutting skyward.

Rarely marked on modern maps, it is familiar to rock climbers in the area and also to locals because of a supernatural legend associated with the landmark.

It seems clear that Carnie Holdsworth knew of the legend given the similarities in theme and plot between the story and her own text; she was very familiar with this area of West Yorkshire having lived at Slack Top, Heptonstall from 1922 to 1927.

It is easy to see why Carnie Holdsworth made good use of the fable, since it provided an excellent narrative bridge between Helen of Four Gates and Eagles' Crag. -From the Introduction

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.

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