Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999.
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Education | Margaret Kennedy | With the onset of war, the town had largely been emptied of male students, making women a more visible presence around the university. Somerville had a tradition of turning out successful women writers; in entering... |
Education | Doreen Wallace | At Somerville DW
became a close friend of Dorothy Sayers
(their religious and political disagreements later drove them apart) and in her circle met Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, and theSitwells
. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press, 1989. 57 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | After Brittain returned to London, Catlin continued teaching at Cornell
, and together they pursued their semi-detached marriage: she lived in London, sharing her household with Winifred Holtby
, while he spent four and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
was devastated when Winifred Holtby
died, at 6:25 am on 29 September 1935. Holtby died after a long illness (renal sclerosis, whose seriousness Brittain had found it difficult to accept), at the Elizabeth Fulcher... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
met Winifred Holtby
at Somerville College
, Oxford, where each was studying after war service. Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996. 152-3 Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 143 |
Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | SJ
wrote to Vera Brittain
(who had recently reviewed her), thereby initiating a close friendship which, however, was neither wholly relaxed nor in the long run lasting. Jameson and Winifred Holtby
, both Yorkshirewomen, more... |
Friends, Associates | Annie S. Swan | During the 1930s ASS
became a friend and correspondent of Winifred Holtby
. They exchanged copies of their books. After Holtby's early death a correspondence developed between ASS
and Vera Brittain
. Swan, Annie S. The Letters of Annie S. Swan. Nicoll, Mildred RobertsonEditor , Hodder and Stoughton, 1945. 164-5, 171, 249 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Una Marson | UM
was delighted to meet Winifred Holtby
, for whom she had great admiration, at a British Commonwealth League
conference. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998. 76 |
Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | 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)... |
Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bentley | 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. Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz, 1962. 174 Brittain, Vera. Chronicle of Friendship. Bishop, AlanEditor , Gollancz, 1986. 38, 56 |
Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bentley | 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. |
Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bentley | 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... |
Friends, Associates | E. M. Delafield | 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... |