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
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.
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 Lettice Cooper
In 1988 LC provided an introduction to Virago 's new edition of Winifred Holtby 's South Riding.
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
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 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
Textual Production Vera Brittain
The Dark Tide was rejected by more than a dozen publishers; Grant Richards agreed to publish it provided that VB subsidized the cost of printing (she paid £50). It was never reprinted The many rejections...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Vera Brittain
VB met Winifred Holtby at Somerville College , Oxford, where each was studying after war service.
Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell.
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Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
143
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...
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.
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