Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago.
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Occupation | Mary Stott | Following in the footsteps of Vera Brittain
and Winifred Holtby
, MS
became first virtual, then titular Editor of the Women's Page for the Manchester Guardian (latterly the Guardian). Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber. 63-4 |
Literary responses | Annie S. Swan | Among this book's admirers was Winifred Holtby
, who had proffered advice from herself and Vera Brittain
not to worry about reviews, and who then wrote favourable ones herself for both Good Housekeeping and Time... |
Literary responses | Katherine Mansfield | |
Literary responses | Naomi Mitchison | Winifred Holtby
, writing in The Bookman, ranked this novel as the most important of the year (a year that saw the appearance of Woolf
's The Waves), Squier, Susan M., and Naomi Mitchison. “Naomi Mitchison: The Feminist Art of Making Things Difficult”. Solution Three, Feminist Press at The City University of New York, pp. 161-83. 165-6 |
Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | On its first appearance DW
felt this to be an adequate, rather commonplace novel. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph. 47 |
Literary responses | Stella Benson | Forty-six years after Benson's death, Naomi Mitchison
acknowledged that her work had ceased being read, that her fantasy was misunderstood as whimsy. She felt, however, that in 1979 a revival was due. Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz. 127 |
Literary responses | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Virginia Woolf
liked the work, but observed that MHVR
was not subtle. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 5: 167 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 103 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | As a child Betty Coles (later ET
) wrote plays (with very short scenes each demanding a new and elaborate setting) and stories. She said she always wanted to be a novelist. Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne. 2 |
Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | SJ
wrote to Vera Brittain
(who had recently reviewed her), thereby initiating a close friendship which, however, was neither wholly relaxed nor in the long run lasting. Jameson and Winifred Holtby
, both Yorkshirewomen, more... |
Friends, Associates | Annie S. Swan | During the 1930s ASS
became a friend and correspondent of Winifred Holtby
. They exchanged copies of their books. After Holtby's early death a correspondence developed between ASS
and Vera Brittain
. Swan, Annie S. The Letters of Annie S. Swan. Editor Nicoll, Mildred Robertson, Hodder and Stoughton. 164-5, 171, 249 |
Friends, Associates | Doreen Wallace | DW
's close friendships with Winifred Holtby
and Leon Geach
lasted until their untimely deaths. But that with Dorothy Sayers
ended in estrangement on religious and political grounds: the final straw was apparently DW
's... |
Friends, Associates | Una Marson | UM
was delighted to meet Winifred Holtby
, for whom she had great admiration, at a British Commonwealth League
conference. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 76 |
Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | This summer she spent a holiday at Varengeville in Normandy, with Naomi Mitchison
. She also met Sydney Schiff
(at Chesham in Buckinghamshire), and on 31 August 1925 had her first meeting with... |
Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bentley | PB
stayed with Vera Brittain
and Winifred Holtby
at the house in Glebe Place in Chelsea where they and Brittain's husband, George Catlin
, all lived. Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz. 174 Brittain, Vera. Chronicle of Friendship. Editor Bishop, Alan, Gollancz. 38, 56 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | MHVR
's friends included novelist Elizabeth Robins
, Theodora Bosanquet
(spokesperson for British Federation of University Women
and one-time secretary of Henry James
), MP Ellen Wilkinson
(despite of their different stance on party politics)... |
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