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."

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Dorothy Whipple
DW must have been writing and publishing stories before her first novel appeared, since she was working on High Wages when her Miss Boddy was printed in Everyman and she recorded it as her first...
Reception Annie S. Swan
Though her married name on the title-page was unusual, her usual readers identified Swan as the author and were appalled. They felt personally betrayed, and did not forgive her. A minister's wife told her of...
Reception Virginia Woolf
The first study of VW was that of Winifred Holtby in October 1932. Those future writers who did work on VW during their student days have included Mary Lavin and Michèle Barrett . In 1992...
Residence Philip Larkin
When he moved to Hull in 1955, Larkin lived first in a hall of residence named after Winifred Holtby (and once her parents' home), then in a series of furnished lodgings, all equally unsatisfactory. Then...
Residence Vera Brittain
VB and Winifred Holtby began sharing their first flat, the Studio, at 52 Doughty Street in Bloomsbury.
Biographers of the two differ as to whether their shared life began in December (according to...
Residence Vera Brittain
VB and Winifred Holtby moved to a three-bedroom flat at 117 Wymering Mansions in Maida Vale.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
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Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996.
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Residence Vera Brittain
VB , George Catlin , and Winifred Holtby moved to a larger flat at 6 Nevern Place, London, in order to have room for VB 's first child.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
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Residence Vera Brittain
VB , George Catlin , and Winifred Holtby moved to 19 Glebe Place, Chelsea, in preparation for the birth of Brittain's second child.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
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Residence Sarah Lady Piers
SLP lived while her children were young at Stonepit or Stonepitts near Seal in Kent, at the foot of the North Downs.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Stonepitts was later the country retreat of Margaret Haig, Lady Rhondda ....
Residence Vera Brittain
After Winifred Holtby 's death, VB and her family moved to 2 Cheyne Walk in Chelsea: the same house that George Eliot had lived in.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
370
Textual Features Vera Brittain
The Dark Tide is set partly at Drayton College, VB 's fictionalised version of Somerville College , before it follows Drayton's graduates out into the world. The two main characters are Daphne Lethbridge, based...
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.
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