Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. 174 Brittain, Vera. Chronicle of Friendship. Editor Bishop, Alan, Gollancz. 38, 56 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | As a child Betty Coles (later ET
) wrote plays (with very short scenes each demanding a new and elaborate setting) and stories. She said she always wanted to be a novelist. Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne. 2 |
Literary responses | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Virginia Woolf
liked the work, but observed that MHVR
was not subtle. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 5: 167 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 103 |
Literary responses | Annie S. Swan | Among this book's admirers was Winifred Holtby
, who had proffered advice from herself and Vera Brittain
not to worry about reviews, and who then wrote favourable ones herself for both Good Housekeeping and Time... |
Literary responses | Katherine Mansfield | |
Literary responses | Naomi Mitchison | Winifred Holtby
, writing in The Bookman, ranked this novel as the most important of the year (a year that saw the appearance of Woolf
's The Waves), Squier, Susan M., and Naomi Mitchison. “Naomi Mitchison: The Feminist Art of Making Things Difficult”. Solution Three, Feminist Press at The City University of New York, pp. 161-83. 165-6 |
Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | On its first appearance DW
felt this to be an adequate, rather commonplace novel. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph. 47 |
Literary responses | Stella Benson | Forty-six years after Benson's death, Naomi Mitchison
acknowledged that her work had ceased being read, that her fantasy was misunderstood as whimsy. She felt, however, that in 1979 a revival was due. Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz. 127 |
Occupation | E. M. Delafield | After five years of writing for Time and Tide, EMD
became one of its directors (joining Winifred Holtby
, who had been made a director the previous year). McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne. chronology |
Occupation | Mary Stott | Following in the footsteps of Vera Brittain
and Winifred Holtby
, MS
became first virtual, then titular Editor of the Women's Page for the Manchester Guardian (latterly the Guardian). Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber. 63-4 |
Occupation | Vera Brittain | With Winifred Holtby
, VB
became a part-time teacher at St Monica's School
, Kingswood; she taught there for two and a half years while both she and Holtby established their writing careers. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 170 |
Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
politics | Virginia Woolf | Uncomfortable with marks of public recognition, VW
developed a theory of the artistic and political benefits of anonymity. She expressed some measure of dissatisfaction, for instance, first with Stephen Tomlin
's 1931 bust of her... |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Warner and Ackland were members of publisher Victor Gollancz
's Left Book Club
, and wrote assiduously for left-wing papers and magazines. (After the second world war, however, Ackland developed divergent and comparatively right-wing views.)... |
Publishing | Doreen Wallace | Before the publication of her first novel, DW
was already, by grace of my dear friend Winifred Holtby
, a contributor of short stories to Time and Tide. Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press. 49 |
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