Alice Holtby

Standard Name: Holtby, Alice

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Dedications Winifred Holtby
WH dedicated the novel to her mother, Alice Holtby , a member of the East Riding County Council since 1923.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
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Mrs Holtby was not impressed by this gesture, and resigned from the Council after...
Family and Intimate relationships Winifred Holtby
WH 's mother, Alice (Winn) Holtby , was alderman for the East Riding County Council . She encouraged her daughter's writing career at the same time as she instilled in her a strong sense of...
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.
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Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
332
Textual Production Winifred Holtby
Winifred's mother, Alice Holtby , oversaw the editing and refused to include certain stories because she thought them, as she had with South Riding, far too true and too thinly veiled.
qtd. in
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
333
Reid and...

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Texts

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