Winifred Holtby

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...

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 the Sitwells.

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...

VB met Winifred Holtby at Somerville College, Oxford, where each was studying after war service.

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...

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...

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...

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.

UM was delighted to meet Winifred Holtby, for whom she had great admiration, at a British Commonwealth League conference.

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.

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.

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...

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...

Their many shared friends included Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby, and the writer and politician Mary Agnes Hamilton. In 1940 Hamilton took Harry Gill, president of the Railway Clerks' Association and a...

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)...