Winifred Holtby

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Standard Name: Holtby, Winifred
Birth Name: Winifred Holtby
WH 's posthumous reputation is based on her final novel, South Riding, published after her death. During her lifetime, she was better known as a prominent journalist, invited by Virginia Woolf in February 1935 to write her autobiography for the Hogarth Press .
Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago.
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Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Travel Stella Benson
SB toured Ireland with her husband and Winifred Holtby .
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Una Marson
The poems in this collection are grouped under the three headings of Nature, Love, and Life. Some are inspired by UM 's involvement with British feminists, including a sonnet on the death of Winifred Holtby
Textual Production Storm Jameson
SJ edited and wrote in Challenge to Death: A Symposium on War and Peace, an anthology featuring Vera Brittain , Winifred Holtby , Rebecca West , Edmund Blunden , Julian Huxley , J. B. Priestley , and Guy Chapman .
Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press.
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Jameson, Storm, editor. Challenge to Death. Constable.
prelims
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
326-7
Textual Production Margery Lawrence
ML 's ghost stories have been frequently anthologised. They appear in, for instance, Fifty Strangest Stories Ever Told (1937), The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century (1987), and Vampire Stories (1993).
Clute, John, and John Grant, editors. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. St Martin’s Press.
under Lawrence, Margery
Textual Production Vera Brittain
VB published her biography of Winifred Holtby , Testament of Friendship.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Production Vera Brittain
Three of VB 's own poems appeared in the collection, which also included poems by Winifred Holtby , Robert Graves , Edmund Blunden , L. P. Hartley , Roy Campbell , and Louis Golding .
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
156
Textual Production Evelyn Waugh
He had written it between September 1931 and May 1932.
Waugh, Evelyn. Black Mischief. Little, Brown and Company.
312
He dedicated it to a pair of aristocratic friends, Ladies Mary and Dorothy Lygon . It appeared a few months before Winifred Holtby 's...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
The Dark Tide was rejected by more than a dozen publishers; Grant Richards agreed to publish it provided that VB subsidized the cost of printing (she paid £50). It was never reprinted The many rejections...
Textual Production Catherine Cookson
CC published The Round Tower, which won the Winifred Holtby prize for regional novels.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable.
258, 338
Textual Production Amabel Williams-Ellis
Contributors included Nancy Cunard , Winifred Holtby , Storm Jameson , Pamela Hansford Johnson , Naomi Mitchison , Sylvia Townsend Warner , W. H. Auden , John Lehmann , and John Strachey .
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
In 1988 LC provided an introduction to Virago 's new edition of Winifred Holtby 's South Riding.
Textual Production Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
She included essays previously published in Time and Tide about her travels to far-off places such as Gibraltar, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, and the holy places of the earth:
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press.
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Palestine...
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
The Library of Congress holds a collection of her papers. Eleven letters from her are included among Letters in Winifred Holtby 's Collected In-mail
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Features Vera Brittain
The Dark Tide is set partly at Drayton College, VB 's fictionalised version of Somerville College , before it follows Drayton's graduates out into the world. The two main characters are Daphne Lethbridge, based...
Residence Vera Brittain
VB and Winifred Holtby moved to a three-bedroom flat at 117 Wymering Mansions in Maida Vale.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell.
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Timeline

1 December 1881: The Schoolmistress, devoted to the furtherance...

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1 December 1881

The Schoolmistress, devoted to the furtherance of female education, began weekly publication in London.

14 May 1920: Time and Tide began publication, offering...

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14 May 1920

Time and Tide began publication, offering a feminist approach to literature, politics, and the arts: Naomi Mitchison called it the first avowedly feminist literary journal with any class, in some ways ahead of its time.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
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May 1922: Madeline Linford launched the Manchester...

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May 1922

Madeline Linford launched the Manchester Guardianwomen's page, which she produced on her own, with no editorial assistant. It was temporarily suspended during the Second World War.

September 1929: The Open Door, campaigning for the economic...

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September 1929

The Open Door, campaigning for the economic emancipation of the woman worker, began publication in London.

1 October 1932: The British Union of Fascists was founded...

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1 October 1932

The British Union of Fascists was founded by Sir Oswald Mosley .

4 September 1935: The Schoolmistress ceased publication when...

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4 September 1935

The Schoolmistress ceased publication when it merged with Woman's Teacher's World.

November 1939: Open Door, a journal about women's employment,...

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November 1939

Open Door, a journal about women's employment, ended publication.

10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...

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10 September 2003

Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.

Texts

Holtby, Winifred. Anderby Wold. John Lane, 1923.
Holtby, Winifred. “Foreword”. Pavements at Anderby, edited by Hilda Stewart Reid and Vera Brittain, Collins, 1937, pp. 9-11.
Cadogan, Mary, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. Anderby Wold, Virago, 1981, p. ix - xix.
Hardisty, Claire, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. The Crowded Street, Virago, 1981, p. ix - xiii.
Shaw, Marion, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. Mandoa, Mandoa!, Virago, 1982, p. ix - xix.
Davidson, George, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. Poor Caroline, Virago, 1985, p. xi - xvii.
Holtby, Winifred. Letters to a Friend. Editors Holtby, Alice and Jean McWilliam, Collins, 1937.
Holtby, Winifred. Mandoa! Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance. Collins, 1933.
Holtby, Winifred. Mandoa! Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance. Virago Press, 1982.
Holtby, Winifred. My Garden, and Other Poems. A. Brown, 1911.
Holtby, Winifred. Pavements at Anderby. Editors Reid, Hilda Stewart and Vera Brittain, Collins, 1937.
Holtby, Winifred. Poor Caroline. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Holtby, Winifred, and George Davidson. Poor Caroline. Virago, 1985.
Holtby, Winifred. South Riding: An English Landscape. Collins, 1936.
Holtby, Winifred. South Riding: An English Landscape. Fontana/Collins, 1986.
Holtby, Winifred et al. Take Back Your Freedom. Editor Ginsbury, Norman, Jonathan Cape, 1939.
Brittain, Vera, and Winifred Holtby. Testament of a Generation. Editors Berry, Paul and Alan Bishop, Virago, 1985.
Holtby, Winifred. The Astonishing Island. Lovat Dickson, 1933.
Holtby, Winifred. The Crowded Street. John Lane, 1924.
Holtby, Winifred. The Crowded Street. Virago, 1981.
Holtby, Winifred. The Frozen Earth, and Other Poems. Collins, 1935.
Holtby, Winifred. The Land of Green Ginger. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Holtby, Winifred. Truth Is Not Sober. W. Collins, 1934.
Holtby, Winifred. Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir. Wishart, 1932.