Winifred Holtby

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Standard Name: Holtby, Winifred
Birth Name: Winifred Holtby
WH 's posthumous reputation is based on her final novel, South Riding, published after her death. During her lifetime, she was better known as a prominent journalist, invited by Virginia Woolf in February 1935 to write her autobiography for the Hogarth Press .
Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago.
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Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Travel Stella Benson
SB toured Ireland with her husband and Winifred Holtby .
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
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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...
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
It is...
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.
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Brittain, Vera. Chronicle of Friendship. Editor Bishop, Alan, Gollancz.
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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...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
Three of VB 's own poems appeared in the collection, which also included poems by Winifred Holtby , Robert Graves , Edmund Blunden , L. P. Hartley , Roy Campbell , and Louis Golding .
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Production Vera Brittain
The Dark Tide was rejected by more than a dozen publishers; Grant Richards agreed to publish it provided that VB subsidized the cost of printing (she paid £50). It was never reprinted The many rejections...
Textual Features Vera Brittain
The Dark Tide is set partly at Drayton College, VB 's fictionalised version of Somerville College , before it follows Drayton's graduates out into the world. The two main characters are Daphne Lethbridge, based...
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.
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Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Residence Vera Brittain
VB and Winifred Holtby began sharing their first flat, the Studio, at 52 Doughty Street in Bloomsbury.
Biographers of the two differ as to whether their shared life began in December (according to...
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
Residence Vera Brittain
VB and Winifred Holtby moved to a three-bedroom flat at 117 Wymering Mansions in Maida Vale.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
189-90
Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell.
159
Residence Vera Brittain
VB , George Catlin , and Winifred Holtby moved to a larger flat at 6 Nevern Place, London, in order to have room for VB 's first child.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
225
Residence Vera Brittain
VB , George Catlin , and Winifred Holtby moved to 19 Glebe Place, Chelsea, in preparation for the birth of Brittain's second child.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Timeline

1 December 1881: The Schoolmistress, devoted to the furtherance...

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1 December 1881

The Schoolmistress, devoted to the furtherance of female education, began weekly publication in London.

14 May 1920: Time and Tide began publication, offering...

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14 May 1920

Time and Tide began publication, offering a feminist approach to literature, politics, and the arts: Naomi Mitchison called it the first avowedly feminist literary journal with any class, in some ways ahead of its time.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
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May 1922: Madeline Linford launched the Manchester...

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May 1922

Madeline Linford launched the Manchester Guardianwomen's page, which she produced on her own, with no editorial assistant. It was temporarily suspended during the Second World War.

September 1929: The Open Door, campaigning for the economic...

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September 1929

The Open Door, campaigning for the economic emancipation of the woman worker, began publication in London.

1 October 1932: The British Union of Fascists was founded...

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1 October 1932

The British Union of Fascists was founded by Sir Oswald Mosley .

4 September 1935: The Schoolmistress ceased publication when...

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4 September 1935

The Schoolmistress ceased publication when it merged with Woman's Teacher's World.

November 1939: Open Door, a journal about women's employment,...

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November 1939

Open Door, a journal about women's employment, ended publication.

10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...

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10 September 2003

Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.

Texts

Holtby, Winifred. Anderby Wold. John Lane, 1923.
Holtby, Winifred. “Foreword”. Pavements at Anderby, edited by Hilda Stewart Reid and Vera Brittain, Collins, 1937, pp. 9-11.
Cadogan, Mary, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. Anderby Wold, Virago, 1981, p. ix - xix.
Hardisty, Claire, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. The Crowded Street, Virago, 1981, p. ix - xiii.
Shaw, Marion, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. Mandoa, Mandoa!, Virago, 1982, p. ix - xix.
Davidson, George, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. Poor Caroline, Virago, 1985, p. xi - xvii.
Holtby, Winifred. Letters to a Friend. Editors Holtby, Alice and Jean McWilliam, Collins, 1937.
Holtby, Winifred. Mandoa! Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance. Collins, 1933.
Holtby, Winifred. Mandoa! Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance. Virago Press, 1982.
Holtby, Winifred. My Garden, and Other Poems. A. Brown, 1911.
Holtby, Winifred. Pavements at Anderby. Editors Reid, Hilda Stewart and Vera Brittain, Collins, 1937.
Holtby, Winifred. Poor Caroline. Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Holtby, Winifred, and George Davidson. Poor Caroline. Virago, 1985.
Holtby, Winifred. South Riding: An English Landscape. Collins, 1936.
Holtby, Winifred. South Riding: An English Landscape. Fontana/Collins, 1986.
Holtby, Winifred et al. Take Back Your Freedom. Editor Ginsbury, Norman, Jonathan Cape, 1939.
Brittain, Vera, and Winifred Holtby. Testament of a Generation. Editors Berry, Paul and Alan Bishop, Virago, 1985.
Holtby, Winifred. The Astonishing Island. Lovat Dickson, 1933.
Holtby, Winifred. The Crowded Street. John Lane, 1924.
Holtby, Winifred. The Crowded Street. Virago, 1981.
Holtby, Winifred. The Frozen Earth, and Other Poems. Collins, 1935.
Holtby, Winifred. The Land of Green Ginger. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Holtby, Winifred. Truth Is Not Sober. W. Collins, 1934.
Holtby, Winifred. Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir. Wishart, 1932.