Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
"Winifred Holtby" by Hulton Archive/Stringer,1930-01-01.Retrieved from https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/writer-winifred-holtby-circa-1930-news-photo/110682071.
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:
Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
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Palestine...
Textual Production
Evelyn Waugh
He had written it between September 1931 and May 1932.
Waugh, Evelyn. Black Mischief. Little, Brown and Company, 1946.
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He dedicated it to a pair of aristocratic friends, Ladies Mary
and Dorothy Lygon
. It appeared a few months before Winifred Holtby
's...
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
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.
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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.