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, 1999.
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Black-and-white profile sketch of Winifred Hotlby, looking to the left with a neutral expression. Her wavy hair is bobbed and she wears a long necklace with two strings. The sketch is signed "P. Smith."

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1995.
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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, 2009.
123n53
Jameson, Storm, editor. Challenge to Death. Constable, 1934.
prelims
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970.
326-7
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, 1995.
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 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, 1949 - Grant, editors. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. St Martin’s Press, 1997.
under Lawrence, Margery
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, 1988–2003.
(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, 1990.
Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable, 1999.
258, 338
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
In 1988 LC provided an introduction to Virago 's new edition of Winifred Holtby 's South Riding.
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, 1987.
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