Winifred Holtby

With Winifred Holtby , VB became a part-time teacher at St Monica's School , Kingswood; she taught there for two and a half years while both she and Holtby established their writing careers.

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), and its author as...

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. It is...

On its first appearance DW felt this to be an adequate, rather commonplace novel.J. B. Priestley wrote: A grand novel, with a good shape to it . . . . Your women are...

Virginia Woolf liked the work, but observed that MHVR was not subtle.Close friend Winifred Holtby , journalist and novelist, thought that the autobiography was splendidly free from bunk, a sentiment that...

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...

After Mansfield's death, Woolf wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it.KM appears in episodes in more than one novel by her friend...

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. At twelve...

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...

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.

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)...

PB began one of the most important friendships of her life when she met Winifred Holtby in this same year, when Holtby came to Yorkshire to give a lecture.

The Bentley-Brittain friendship lasted throughout this year, interrupted by emotional quarrels. Their final falling out, some time after Brittain had stayed in Yorkshire with Bentley and her mother, is variously attributed to a blurb or...

EMD had many literary friends, some of whom were associated with Time and Tide magazine, including Lady Rhondda, Winifred Holtby , L. A. G. Strong , A. B. Cox , Mary Agnes Hamilton , and...

Their many shared friends included Vera Brittain , Winifred Holtby , and the writer and politician Mary Agnes Hamilton . In 1940 Hamilton took Harry Gill , president of the Railway Clerks' Association and a...