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Definition: Holtby, Winifred from Chambers Biographical Dictionary

1898-1935

English novelist and feminist

Born in Rudston, Yorkshire, she was educated at Oxford, and served in France with the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. She was a prolific journalist, and was a director from 1926 of Time and Tide. She wrote a number of novels with strong-willed women as her heroines, including The Crowded Street (1924) and The Land of Green Ginger (1927), but is chiefly remembered for her last and most successful, South Riding (1935).

  • Brittain, V Testament of Friendship (1940).

Holtby, Winifred

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English novelist and journalist. She was an ardent advocate of women's freedom and of racial equality. Her novel South Riding (1936), set in her native Yorkshire, was awarded the Tait Black Memorial Prize and was subsequently filmed and televised. Her other works include an analysis of women's position in contemporary society, Women in a Changing Civilization (1934). She was born in Rudstone, Yorkshire, and educated at Oxford University. In 1921 she moved to London, where she worked for the periodical Time and Tide . She also travelled in Europe, lecturing for the League of Nations Union. Among her other novels are Anderby Wold (1932), The Crowded Street (1924), The Land of Green Ginger (1927), Poor Caroline (1931), and Mandoa! Mandoa! (1933). quotations Holtby, Winifred…
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English feminist. She was born in Rudstone, Yorkshire, and became a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Corps in the World War I, and then went to Somerville College, Oxford, where she met vera B rittain . After they graduated, they shared a flat in London. Winifred became a prolific journalist, writing…
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Full text Article South Riding

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A regional novel (1936) by Winifred Holtby (1898-1935), in which the author reveals the complexities and conflicts of local government, and explores the characters of those involved in the decisionmaking revealed. South Riding is a fictional creation; in local-government terms, Yorkshire was until…
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From OE wald ‘woodland’, the word wold is now usually applied to areas of higher ground that have been cleared of forest; see also the COTSWOLDS and the WEALD . An area of low, rolling, once wooded hills on the border between North Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire, starting some 30 km (19…
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See also cather , spenser The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents worn out, And stripped of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms! Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more In a new And more…
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✣Key Facts Conflict: World War I Time Period: Early 20th Century Genre: Memoir OVERVIEW Testament of Youth (1933) is a memoir that traces twenty-five years in the life of British writer and pacifist Vera Brittain. She describes her stifling upbringing in an upper-middle-class household that placed…
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