This Slavery – cover reveal!
Today SelfMadeHero released their Autumn List, which includes This Slavery, our latest graphic adaptation. This is what they said about it:
“You likely already know the Rickard Sisters for their previous graphic novel adaptations of literary classics No Surrender and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. This year they are reviving This Slavery by feminist trailblazer Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, the first female working-class novelist to be published in 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 pre-war 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.
Of No Surrender, Comics Review wrote: “Powerful, enraging, engaging and even occasionally funny, this never-more-timely tale of the force of the disenfranchised with their backs to the wall and ready to fight is supremely readable and should be compulsory viewing for all.”
