Constance Holme

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CH , writing during the earlier part of the twentieth century, was a playwright, novelist, short-story writer, and poet. Her plays (her own favourite genre) had little success, but her eight novels and single volume of short pieces (modernist and experimental in style) met with considerable critical respect, though they never broke through to a permanent place in standard accounts of her period. At the same time her novels (all regional in setting, the first three upper-class in their casts of characters) had great popular success with unsophisticated readers, who were apparently won by their intense emotions and (in some cases) exciting stories, ignoring their elements of patterning, their symbolism, and their transformation of individual experience into the more generally human.

Milestones

7 October 1880

CH was born, the fourteenth and youngest of her family, at a Georgian house named Owlet Ash at Milnthorpe, which was then in Westmorland.
On a sub-section of a popular genealogy webpage, called Holme Family Genealogy Forum, Jannine Fletcher posted a message in September 2001 to say that she lived at CH 's Owlet Ash and had information to offer about it. She seems to have had no takers, at least online.
Fletcher, Jannine. “Owlet Ash House Milnthorpe”. Genealogy.com: Holme Family Genealogy Forum.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

5 October 1907

CH 's earliest publication seems to have been a poem published in the Weekly Westminster Gazette.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By April 1914

CH published her second novel, The Lonely Plough, which became her best-known.
This novel is advertised in a Mills and Boon list printed in Rose Allatini 's . . . Happy Ever After, which was out before the end of this month.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

17 June 1955

CH died of cancer in the village of Arnside in Westmorland, to which she had only recently moved.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

7 October 1880

CH was born, the fourteenth and youngest of her family, at a Georgian house named Owlet Ash at Milnthorpe, which was then in Westmorland.
On a sub-section of a popular genealogy webpage, called Holme Family Genealogy Forum, Jannine Fletcher posted a message in September 2001 to say that she lived at CH 's Owlet Ash and had information to offer about it. She seems to have had no takers, at least online.
Fletcher, Jannine. “Owlet Ash House Milnthorpe”. Genealogy.com: Holme Family Genealogy Forum.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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