Lancashire Girls Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Convict’s Wife | 2022 | Buy |
| A Mother’s Fight | 2022 | Buy |
| The Runaway Daughter | 2023 | Buy |
Mill Town Lasses Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Cotton Spinner | 2020 | Buy |
| A Lancashire Lass | 2020 | Buy |
| A Family Secret | 2021 | Buy |
The Cavanah Family Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Rag Maiden | 2024 | Buy |
| The Market Girl | 2024 | Buy |
| The Widow’s Shillings | 2025 | Buy |
Libby Ashworth was born and raised in Lancashire, England, and can trace her family roots back to the village of Whalley in the 1600s. Many of her ancestors worked in the cotton industry, starting as home-based handloom weavers and later in the mills of Blackburn after the Industrial Revolution. This family history directly shapes her fiction.
Her Mill Town Lasses series, beginning with The Cotton Spinner (2020), follows women working in the cotton mills of 19th-century Lancashire. The Lancashire Girls series, starting with The Convict’s Wife (2022), continues the theme of northern English women facing hard circumstances. Her newest series, The Cavanah Family, began with The Rag Maiden in 2024.
Ashworth is also the author of several local interest books about Lancashire history. She has been a published writer since she was a teenager, when Pony Annual bought her first short story, and her work has appeared in magazines including The Lady and People’s Friend.