Stanley Houghton: 2 books
Horniman's Choice
Four One-Act Plays from the Manchester School of Playwrights
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
‘If Lancashire playwrights will send their plays to me
I shall pledge myself to read them through. Let them
not write as one dramatist does, about Countesses and Duchesses and society existing in imaginations, but about their friends and enemies - about real life.’
Annie Horniman
In...
by Stanley Houghton
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
It's holiday week in the Lancashire town of Hindle, just before the First World War. Fanny Hawthorne, a spirited, determined mill girl, has just returned from a weekend in Blackpool with her friend Mary Hollins. At least that's what she tells her parents. In fact, she's been spending the weekend with...