WRITING WORKERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1972, 31 January 1914, Page 11

WRITING WORKERS.

REBEL PEN CLUB FOUNDED. One of the latest literary.societies is a Rebel Pen Club, formed by the members of Rebel House Working Women's College in London. It has been founded by Miss Ethel Carnio, a Lancashire mill hand: who has published two volumes or poems , and Borne delightful fairy tales. The object of tho club is to help working women who have a talent for writing to turn it to account, and the membership is rapidly growing. "All are workers, and all write, or, at any rate, hope to' write," said Mis? Carnio to a London interviewer. "What I feel is that literature up till now has been lop-sided, dealing with life only from the standpoint of one class. What we of the Rebel Pen Club hope to do ■is to write of what we know, of the things we have heard and seen down nn the depths. We want to tell the world the unvarnished truth about the life of tho workers, and to sot down the opinion of the workers at -first hand." Among those who have joined the club are: A London cook, who writes excellent verse; a general servant, aged 19, who writes in her scanty leisure j a young married woman of tho. working class who has written several short stories reflecting, with considerable dramatic, power, the struggles of the agricultural labourer; and several Lancashire mill hands, with literary leanings. "I ask them all r " said Miss Carnie, "to try and realise that, though they are,not Shakespearcs, they are- themselves, and' can write something that ! Shakespeare couldn't have written."

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