Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago.
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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. 152-3 Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 143 |
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... |
Textual Production | Catherine Cookson | CC
published The Round Tower, which won the Winifred Holtby
prize for regional novels. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable. 258, 338 |
Textual Production | Lettice Cooper | |
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 |
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... |
Textual Production | Naomi Jacob | The Library of Congress
holds a collection of her papers. Eleven letters from her are included among Letters in Winifred Holtby
's Collected In-mail OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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... |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | SJ
edited and wrote in Challenge to Death: A Symposium on War and Peace, an anthology featuring Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, Rebecca West
, Edmund Blunden
, Julian Huxley
, J. B. Priestley
, and Guy Chapman
. Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press. 123n53 Jameson, Storm, editor. Challenge to Death. Constable. prelims Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 326-7 |
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... |
Residence | Philip Larkin | When he moved to Hull in 1955, Larkin lived first in a hall of residence named after Winifred Holtby
(and once her parents' home), then in a series of furnished lodgings, all equally unsatisfactory. Then... |
Textual Production | Margery Lawrence | ML
's ghost stories have been frequently anthologised. They appear in, for instance, Fifty Strangest Stories Ever Told (1937), The Virago
Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century (1987), and Vampire Stories (1993). Clute, John, and John Grant, editors. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. St Martin’s Press. under Lawrence, Margery |
Literary responses | Katherine Mansfield |
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