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.
UM
was delighted to meet Winifred Holtby
, for whom she had great admiration, at a British Commonwealth League
conference.
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press.
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Friends, Associates
Stella Benson
This summer she spent a holiday at Varengeville in Normandy, with Naomi Mitchison
. She also met Sydney Schiff
(at Chesham in Buckinghamshire), and on 31 August 1925 had her first meeting with...
Friends, Associates
Phyllis Bentley
PB
stayed with Vera Brittain
and Winifred Holtby
at the house in Glebe Place in Chelsea where they and Brittain's husband, George Catlin
, all lived.
Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz.
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Brittain, Vera. Chronicle of Friendship. Editor Bishop, Alan, Gollancz.
VB
met Winifred Holtby
at Somerville College
, Oxford, where each was studying after war service.
Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell.
152-3
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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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...
Education
Margaret Kennedy
With the onset of war, the town had largely been emptied of male students, making women a more visible presence around the university. Somerville had a tradition of turning out successful women writers; in entering...
Education
Doreen Wallace
At Somerville DW
became a close friend of Dorothy Sayers
(their religious and political disagreements later drove them apart) and in her circle met Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, and theSitwells
.
Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press.
