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of many of the books mentioned on this site.
Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) was a committed socialist and feminist who wrote the classic "South Riding" as a warm yet sharp social critique of the well--to-do farming community she was born into. She was a good friend of Vera Brittain (Shirley Williams's mum), possibly portraying her as Delia in "The Crowded Street". She died at the age of 37.
"South Riding"
"One of the best portrails of English provincial life ever written, South Riding is on a par with the best of Arnold Bennett in it's depiction of 'big fish in little ponds.' She was a strong socialist and she could have made stock villains from the local bigwigs, and heroes out of the working class. What she does do however is to create real people with good and bad sides. The local squire is shown to have real problems of his own, a mad wife and daughter and no money, while some of the working class fiqures are shown to be shiftless. If you want to know what it was like to live in nineteen thirties provincial England this book will tell you. The 1970s TV series is a good adoptation also worth a look."
"The Crowded Street"
Throughout this description of life in small-town 'Marshington', Winifred Holtby expressed her conviction that young women should be allowed to live away from home, to work, to develop as personalities away from their families, to shake off the ties that many mothers seemed to think it was their prerogative to impose on their daughters.There are other themes, too, which make the novel fascinating: parts of it are set during the First World War (in 1918 Winifred had left Oxford to serve with the WAACs in France) and it was with first-hand knowledge of war that she spent much of her short life writing and lecturing about pacifism.
"The Selected Stories of Winifred
Holtby"
This selection of Winifred Holtby's short stories is drawn from her two volumes, "Truth is not Sober" and "Pavements of Anderby", published two years after her death. The stories are irreverent and many are autobiographically based, focusing on the Yorkshire farming community.
"Virginia Woolf"
Holtby gives us Woolf the critic, the essayist and the experimental novelist in a critical memoir which is of particular interest as the work of one intelligent, though very different, novelist commenting on another. She has written a candid appreciation of the complex, groundbreaking work of a contemporary writer at the height of her career. |
