Jean McWilliam

Standard Name: McWilliam, Jean

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Dedications Winifred Holtby
WH dedicated the novel to her friend Jean Finlay McWilliam and took its title from a poem by Vera Brittain .
Holtby, Winifred. The Crowded Street. Virago, 1981.
prelims
The novel, completed in August 1923, did not wholly satisfy its author.
Hardisty, Claire, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. The Crowded Street, Virago, 1981, p. ix - xiii.
ix
Friends, Associates Winifred Holtby
WH met Jean McWilliam at the WAAC unit at Huchenneville. They corresponded throughout Holtby's life, writing to one another as Rosalind and Celia from Shakespeare 's mutually devoted heroines in As You Like It.
Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999.
79-81
Textual Production Winifred Holtby
WH 's correspondence with her friend Jean McWilliam was published posthumously as Letters to a Friend, edited by McWilliam and Alice Holtby .
Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999.
82-3
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
332

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Texts

Holtby, Winifred. Letters to a Friend. Editors Holtby, Alice and Jean McWilliam, Collins, 1937.