Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Winifred Holtby
-
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.
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
He dedicated it to a pair of aristocratic friends, Ladies Mary
and Dorothy Lygon
. It appeared a few months before Winifred Holtby
's...
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...
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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Una Marson
The poems in this collection are grouped under the three headings of Nature, Love, and Life. Some are inspired by UM
's involvement with British feminists, including a sonnet on the death of Winifred Holtby
Travel
Stella Benson
SB
toured Ireland with her husband
and Winifred Holtby
.
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
