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 Author name Excerpt
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...
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.
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Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell.
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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.
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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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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...
Residence Vera Brittain
After Winifred Holtby 's death, VB and her family moved to 2 Cheyne Walk in Chelsea: the same house that George Eliot had lived in.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Reception Virginia Woolf
The first study of VW was that of Winifred Holtby in October 1932. Those future writers who did work on VW during their student days have included Mary Lavin and Michèle Barrett . In 1992...
Reception Annie S. Swan
Though her married name on the title-page was unusual, her usual readers identified Swan as the author and were appalled. They felt personally betrayed, and did not forgive her. A minister's wife told her of...
Publishing Dorothy Whipple
DW must have been writing and publishing stories before her first novel appeared, since she was working on High Wages when her Miss Boddy was printed in Everyman and she recorded it as her first...
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.
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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.)...
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 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.
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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.
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