Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago.
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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
.
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| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Residence | Sarah, Lady Piers | SLP
lived while her children were young at Stonepit or Stonepitts near Seal in Kent, at the foot of the North Downs. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Stonepitts was later the country retreat of Margaret Haig, Lady Rhondda
.... |
| 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. 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. 242 |
| 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 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | He had written it between September 1931 and May 1932. Waugh, Evelyn. Black Mischief. Little, Brown and Company. 312 |
| 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. 156 |
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