“The tragedy in the lives of the people is in what does not happen, rather than in what does happen -in all they do not realise. Ethel Carnie -Miss Nobody” Working Class WriterForgotten Women WritersLost Voices Author:Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
“At such times a young couple found it difficult to believe that in a few hours the whistle would call them, two slaves amongst a multitude of slaves, when they felt that each other was the most important person in the world! They walked on air, and saw the stars shine , and even poverty could not numb their hearts, but let them stray for a short time in that fairy garden whose gate opens but once , and , once closing, nevermore! Miss Nobody- Ethel Carnie” Daily GrindWorking Class HeroLost Women WritersForgotten Books Author:Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
“A few watercourses still held the red rays of sunset. They glittered like fire snakes, twining through the dark opaqueness of the landscape, murmuring through funereal waving plumes of blackening grass and rushes. They had witnessed the chasing of witches to their deaths. Here, where all was now still, save for the wailing cry of the peewit, those beings ha shrieked aloud their innocence, or ,borne aloft on the maddened wings of ambitious ecstasy,had proclaimed their power to raise the quick and the dead , to curse if they could not bless, hate if they could not love-clothing themselves with sombre majesty, playing with elemental fires, rather than eat porridge humbly , bow to the squire, and tremble before the priest.” Heathen WaysDark And BroodingLandscape ReligionNorthern WitchcraftNothern Gothic Book:Helen of Four Gates Source: Helen of Four Gates