Have you read Rapid Fire Reviews' #review of #FamilyAndHonour yet?
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Today in Labor History April 1, 1929: Textile workers struck at the Loray Mill, in Gastonia, N.C. Textile mills started moving from New England, to the South, in the 1890s, to avoid the unions. This escalated after the 1909 Shirtwaist strike (which preceded the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire), the IWW-led Lawrence (1912) and (1913) Patterson strikes, which were led by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Big Bill Haywood and Carlo Tresca. The Gastonia strike was violent and bloody. Dozens of strikers were imprisoned. A pregnant white woman, Ella Mae Wiggins, wrote and performed songs during the strike. She also lived with and organized African American workers, one of the worst crimes a poor white woman could commit in the South. The strike ended soon after goons murdered her. Woody Guthrie called Wiggins the pioneer of the protest ballad and one of the great folk song writers.

Wiley Cash wrote a wonderful novel about Ella Mae Wiggins and the Gastonia strike, “The Last Ballad.” Jess Walter wrote a really great novel about the Spokane free speech fight, featuring Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, called “The Cold Millions.” Other novels about the Gastonia strike include Sherwood Anderson’s, “Beyond Desire,” and Mary Heaton Vorse’s, “Strike!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJj65ZmjnS8

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‘THE LUMBER BARON’S WIFE’: A UNIQUE TIME SLIP NOVEL. #LynnAustin #BookReview #HistoricalFiction

https://rissiwrites.com/2026/04/the-lumber-barons-wife-a-unique-time-slip-novel.html

Explore the Lives of Incredible Women in April’s New Historical Fiction

Incredible women like Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Barton stand front and center in April's new historical fiction.
https://bookriot.com/aprils-new-historical-fiction/

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Full review at https://ramblingmads.uk/2026/03/24/blog-tour-first-of-december-karen-jennings/

First of December captures an extraordinary time in the history of South Africa and colonialism, in this intensely human story.

More here: https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/first-of-december/

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More here: https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/first-of-december/

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