Winifred Holtby (1898–1935)
Auteur de Province anglaise
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Winifred Holtby
Testament of a Generation: The Journalism of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby (1985) 55 exemplaires
South Riding Collection by Winifred Holtby - 3 Book Set - South Riding; The Land of Green Ginger; Anderby Wold (2010) 2 exemplaires
South Riding 2 exemplaires
The Frozen Earth and Other Poems 1 exemplaire
Virginia Woolf 1 exemplaire
Vrouwen aan het roer 1 exemplaire
The Wronged Woman : Wren 3 1 exemplaire
West Riding 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 (1987) — Contributeur — 77 exemplaires
Outspoken Women: An Anthology of Women's Writing on Sex, 1870-1969 (2005) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
South Riding [2011 TV mini series] — Original book — 5 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1898-06-23
- Date de décès
- 1935-09-29
- Lieu de sépulture
- All Saints Churchyard, Rudston, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Rudston, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Cause du décès
- kidney failure (Bright's disease)
- Lieux de résidence
- Rudston, Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Études
- governess
Queen Margaret's School, Scarborough
Oxford University (Somerville College) - Professions
- novelist
journalist
lecturer (League of Nations Union)
director (Time and Tide) - Relations
- Brittain, Vera (companion|1919|Holtby's death|1935)
- Organisations
- Independent Labour Party
Six Point Group
Time and Tide - Courte biographie
- Winifred Holtby, a prolific writer and committed pacifist, met Vera Brittain in 1919. The two writers developed a close friendship and they shared a home and care of Brittain's children for many years until Holtby's death. See Brittain's "Testament of Friendship" (1940).
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Discussions
158. South Riding by Winifred Holtby à Backlisted Book Club (Mars 2022)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - Between the Wars - HOLTBY & GRAVES à 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (Octobre 2017)
South Riding à Virago Modern Classics (Août 2011)
February: Reading Winifred Holtby à Monthly Author Reads (Février 2011)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 27
- Aussi par
- 10
- Membres
- 2,149
- Popularité
- #11,969
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 91
- ISBN
- 75
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 14
This is a classic novel set in a village in Yorkshire, the author’s home county, first published in 1936 after Holtby had died at age 36 of kidney disease. The book takes in a range of issues such as local politics, socialism, poverty, and the impact of the war and the influenza pandemic. It also has a colourful array of characters: the village councillors, in particular, the feisty female alderman Mrs Beddows, the straying minister Huggins, and returned spinster school ma’am Sarah Burton. Holtby describes the villagers with wit and charm reminiscent of Jane Austen.
Sarah is a strong, feminist character with modern ideals and a zest for life, who finds herself attracted to Robert Carne, a struggling conservative upper class landowner who is battling with the financial challenge of maintaining his estate, dealing with his institutionalised wife and with his own failing health. Sarah deals with her own work-related challenges: a frustrated scientist become science teacher, a talented student whose impoverished home situation steals her opportunities, and Robert’s turbulent daughter Midge.
I loved the writing in this book. Strangely I usually detest writers that use tell instead of show techniques but this story illustrates that it can be done well with some humour and insight. I have not seen the TV mini-series connected with this, but am now inspired to do so. What a shame this author’s life was so tragically cut short, she seems like a fascinating person.… (plus d'informations)