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
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.
370
Textual Production Vera Brittain
VB published her biography of Winifred Holtby , Testament of Friendship.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
337
Family and Intimate relationships Vera Brittain
After Brittain returned to London, Catlin continued teaching at Cornell , and together they pursued their semi-detached marriage: she lived in London, sharing her household with Winifred Holtby , while he spent four and...
Family and Intimate relationships Vera Brittain
VB was devastated when Winifred Holtby died, at 6:25 am on 29 September 1935. Holtby died after a long illness (renal sclerosis, whose seriousness Brittain had found it difficult to accept), at the Elizabeth Fulcher...
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
In 1988 LC provided an introduction to Virago 's new edition of Winifred Holtby 's South Riding.
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
After Mansfield's death, Woolf wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it.
Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, pp. 25-6.
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KM appears in episodes in more than one novel by her friend...

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