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, 1999.
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Black-and-white profile sketch of Winifred Hotlby, looking to the left with a neutral expression. Her wavy hair is bobbed and she wears a long necklace with two strings. The sketch is signed "P. Smith."

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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.
qtd. in
Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne, 1985.
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At twelve...
Literary responses Katherine Mansfield
After Mansfield's death, Woolf wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it.
qtd. in
Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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KM appears in episodes in more than one novel by her friend...
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, 1979.
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It is...
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 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, 1995, pp. 161-83.
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and its author as...
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, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
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Close friend Winifred Holtby , journalist and novelist, thought that the autobiography was splendidly free from bunk,
qtd. in
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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a sentiment that...
Literary responses Dorothy Whipple
On its first appearance DW felt this to be an adequate, rather commonplace novel.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
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J. B. Priestley wrote: A grand novel, with a good shape to it . . . . Your women are...
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, 1985.
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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, 1973.
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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
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, 1995.
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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.
qtd. in
Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
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