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 | 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... |
| 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
.... |
| 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 | Lettice Cooper | |
| Textual Production | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | She included essays previously published in Time and Tide about her travels to far-off places such as Gibraltar, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, and the holy places of the earth: Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press. 2 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
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