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
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...
Publishing Doreen Wallace
Before the publication of her first novel, DW was already, by grace of my dear friend Winifred Holtby , a contributor of short stories to Time and Tide.
Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press.
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politics Sylvia Townsend Warner
Warner and Ackland were members of publisher Victor Gollancz 's Left Book Club , and wrote assiduously for left-wing papers and magazines. (After the second world war, however, Ackland developed divergent and comparatively right-wing views.)...
Textual Production Evelyn Waugh
He had written it between September 1931 and May 1932.
Waugh, Evelyn. Black Mischief. Little, Brown and Company.
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He dedicated it to a pair of aristocratic friends, Ladies Mary and Dorothy Lygon . It appeared a few months before Winifred Holtby 's...
Publishing Dorothy Whipple
DW must have been writing and publishing stories before her first novel appeared, since she was working on High Wages when her Miss Boddy was printed in Everyman and she recorded it as her first...
Literary responses Dorothy Whipple
On its first appearance DW felt this to be an adequate, rather commonplace novel.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph.
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J. B. Priestley wrote: A grand novel, with a good shape to it . . . . Your women are...
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 .
politics Virginia Woolf
Uncomfortable with marks of public recognition, VW developed a theory of the artistic and political benefits of anonymity. She expressed some measure of dissatisfaction, for instance, first with Stephen Tomlin 's 1931 bust of her...
Reception Virginia Woolf
The first study of VW was that of Winifred Holtby in October 1932. Those future writers who did work on VW during their student days have included Mary Lavin and Michèle Barrett . In 1992...

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