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Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time”

Author : Lisa Regan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443818240
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time” written by Lisa Regan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time”: Critical Essays brings together for the first time a range of scholarly perspectives on one of Britain’s best-loved regional authors. Remembered for her vivid portrayal of 1930s rural Yorkshire in her final novel, South Riding (1936) and for her friendship with Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) has become a key figure for those interested in British literature, politics, and culture between the wars. Epitomising the professional independence and political passion which we have come to associate with the newly emancipated women of her era, Holtby’s was a life devoted to myriad causes and directed to the pressing issues of her day. With fresh perspectives on Holtby’s better known novels alongside new critical forays into her short stories, drama, journalism, and historical writing, Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time” sheds new light on a woman who not only spoke out in support of feminism, peace, and racial equality at a time when fascism and war loomed, but who also shared with us her views on a wide spectrum of topical concerns from Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, psychology, spinsters, mothers, and the B.B.C., to her delight in clothes, films, and village gossip.

Anderby Wold

Author : Winifred Holtby
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0748130926
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Anderby Wold written by Winifred Holtby and published by Virago. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic cousin, John. Together they battle to preserve Mary's neglected inheritance, her beloved farm, Anderby Wold. This labour of love - and the benevolent tyranny of traditional Yorkshire ways - have made Mary old before her time. Then into her purposeful life comes David Rossitur, red-haired, charming, eloquent: how can she help but love him? But David is a young man from a different England, radical and committed to social change. As their confrontation and its consequences inevitably unfold, Mary's life and that of the calm village of Anderby are changed forever.

South Riding - An English Landscape

Author : Winifred Holtby
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528790308
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book South Riding - An English Landscape written by Winifred Holtby and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “South Riding” is a 1936 novel by Winifred Holtby, published posthumously. Set in fictional South Riding in Yorkshire, England, it revolves around the lives of young headmistress Sarah Burton, unhappy husband Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall, socialist Joe Astell, and Alderman Mrs Beddows. Winifred Holtby (1898 – 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, best known for her novel South Riding. She was, an passionate feminist, socialist and pacifist and was a member of the feminist Six Point Group. Holtby's fame was derived mainly from her journalism, including articles for the feminist journal 'Time and Tide', but she also wrote 14 books. These include six novels; two volumes of short stories; the first critical study of Virginia Woolf (1932) and "Women and a Changing Civilization" (1934), a feminist survey with opinions that are still relevant. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material.

The Clear Stream

Author : Marion Shaw
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1405514779
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Clear Stream written by Marion Shaw and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winifred Holtby was a prolific journalist and writer whose most famous work South Riding is on many university courses. She was an active campaigner for several progressive causes during the inter-war period such as pacifism, feminism and most important to her, racial equality and harmony in South Africa. She was the subject of Vera Britain's Testament of Friendship. She was essentially a 'woman in her time' and yet could also be seen as an index to many of the progressive movements which were around in the pre-war days and in this sense she was indeed a 'clear stream'. Written in a wonderfully accessible style interspersed with excellent research as well as warmth from one born in the same district as Winifred herself this is the definitive biography of a woman ahead of her time.

The Crowded Street

Author : Winifred Holtby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book The Crowded Street written by Winifred Holtby and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Land of Green Ginger

Author : Winifred Holtby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Land of Green Ginger written by Winifred Holtby and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Testament of Youth

Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297859145
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Testament of Youth written by Vera Brittain and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. Includes an afterword by Kate Mosse OBE. In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived those agonising years; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time, and has lost none of its power to shock, move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933.

Testament of Friendship

Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1405515554
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Testament of Friendship written by Vera Brittain and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WRITTEN WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARK BOSTRIDGE In her bestselling first volume of autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonising years of the First World War, lamenting the destruction of a generation which for her included those she most dearly loved - her lover, her brother and her closest friends. In Testament of Friendship Brittain tells the story of the woman who helped her survive those tragic years - the writer Winifred Holtby. They met at Somerville College, Oxford, immediately after the war. Their friendship continued through Vera's marriage and their separate but parallel writing careers until Winifred's untimely death at the age of thirty-seven. When she died, her fame as a writer was about to reach its peak with the publication of her greatest novel, South Riding. A moving record of a friendship between two women of courage, determination and intelligence and a wonderful portrait of a lifelong love. Testament of Friendship now takes its rightful place as a Virago Modern Classic.

Winifred Holtby's Social Vision

Author : Lisa Regan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317322908
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Winifred Holtby's Social Vision written by Lisa Regan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Riding. This is the first monograph to provide a literary criticism of Holtby’s social philosophy and presents in-depth readings of all her major works as well as some of her less well-known writing.

Poems and Verse of Winifred Holtby

Author : Antony Webb
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443845612
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Poems and Verse of Winifred Holtby written by Antony Webb and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was conceived after reading Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth and Testament of Friendship. Winifred Holtby died very early after suffering from Bright’s Disease – renal failure – aged only 37 in 1935. Into these years, she crammed more than most people achieve in an average life. She was a kind, gentle and very generous person; she had a strong belief in equality of sex, race and status, and was a very strong feminist. She became a Director of the feminist newspaper Time and Tide. She wrote several novels, the most famous being South Riding. During her life, she also wrote many poems but they were not published, apart from 16 in a very small book called Frozen Earth and Other Poems (1935). The Poems and Verse of Winifred Holtby captures the majority of her poetical works, which point to periods in her life, including the WAAC during 1918, (“Trains in France”); her time in South Africa in 1928 (“Hills of the Transvaal”); and the problems she had with Harry Pearson, her “boy friend that isn’t a boyfriend” (“The Dead Man,” “Epilogue to Romance,” “The Robber” and “The Grudging Ghost”). The span of the poems range from examples of her early work (“Namely Only” and “Sad Ascension Day”), which should appeal to children and young adults; to “The Debt,” which describes Winifred’s feeling of the debt she thought she owed to life, which gives the reader an idea of the caring person that she was; through to one poignant poem which she wrote towards the end of her life, “The Valley of Shadows,” which is a poem of love and thankfulness and shows the debt she considered she owed to her close friend Vera Britttain.

Poor Caroline

Author : Winifred Holtby
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 074813090X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Poor Caroline written by Winifred Holtby and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccentric, dressed in trailing feathers and jangling beads, peering out from behind her lorgnette. Sitting alone in her West Kensington bedsitter, she dreams of the Christian Cinema Company - her vehicle for reform. For Caroline sees herself as a pioneer, one who must risk everything for the 'Cause of the Right'. Her Board of Directors is a motley crew including Basil St Denis, upper crust but impecunious; Joseph Isenbaum, aspiring to Society and Eton for his son; Eleanor de la Roux, Caroline's independent cousin from South Africa; Hugh Macafee, a curt Scottish film technician; young Father Mortimer, scarred from the First World War; and Clifton Johnson, a seedy American scenario writer on the make. Winifred Holtby affectionately observes the foibles of human nature in this sparkiling satire, first published in 1931.

Women, the Family, and Freedom

Author : Susan G. Bell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804711715
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Women, the Family, and Freedom written by Susan G. Bell and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1750 to 1880. The central issuesmotherhood, women's legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women's education and laborextended to women the struggle by men for personal and political liberty. These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote pinpointing the documents significance. Many of the documents have been translated into English for the first time.

Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture

Author : Martin Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501360426
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture written by Martin Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining work by novelists, filmmakers, TV producers and songwriters, this book uncovers the manner in which the radio – and the act of listening – has been written about for the past 100 years. Ever since the first public wireless broadcasts, people have been writing about the radio: often negatively, sometimes full of praise, but always with an eye and an ear to explain and offer an opinion about what they think they have heard. Novelists including Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, and James Joyce wrote about characters listening to this new medium with mixtures of delight, frustration, and despair. Clint Eastwood frightened moviegoers half to death in Play Misty for Me, but Lou Reed's 'Rock & Roll' said listening to a New York station had saved Jenny's life. Frasier showed the urbane side of broadcasting, whilst Good Morning, Vietnam exploded from the cinema screen with a raw energy all of its own. Queen thought that all the audience heard was 'ga ga', even as The Buggles said video had killed the radio star and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers lamented 'The Last DJ'. This book explores the cultural fascination with radio; the act of listening as a cultural expression – focusing on fiction, films and songs about radio. Martin Cooper, a broadcaster and academic, uses these movies, TV shows, songs, novels and more to tell a story of listening to the radio – as created by these contemporary writers, filmmakers, and musicians.

Dangerous by Degrees

Author : Susan J. Leonardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813513669
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous by Degrees written by Susan J. Leonardi and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .

The Land Of Green Ginger

Author : Winifred Holtby
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748130934
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Land Of Green Ginger written by Winifred Holtby and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire. There she dreams of the far-off lands she will visit and adventures to come. At eighteen, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his way to the trenches of the First World War. Joanna has been in love before - with Sir Walter Raleigh, with the Scarlet Pimpernel, with Coriolanus - but this is different. Teddy tells her he's been given the world to wear as a golden ball. Joanna believes him and marries him, but the fabled shores recede into the distance when, after the war, Teddy returns in ill health. The magic land turns out to be the harsh reality of motherhood and life on a Yorkshire farm. Yet still she dares to dream.

The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture

Author : Emma Sterry
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319408291
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture written by Emma Sterry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates the single woman within the evolving landscape of modernity, examining how she negotiated rural and urban worlds, explored domestic and bohemian roles, and traversed public and private spheres. In the modern era, the single woman was both celebrated and derided for refusing to conform to societal expectations regarding femininity and sexuality. The different versions of single women presented in cultural narratives of this period—including the old maid, odd woman, New Woman, spinster, and flapper—were all sexually suspicious. The single woman, however, was really an amorphous figure who defied straightforward categorization. Emma Sterry explores depictions of such single women in transatlantic women’s fiction of the 1920s to 1940s. Including a diverse selection of renowned and forgotten writers, such as Djuna Barnes, Rosamond Lehmann, Ngaio Marsh, and Eliot Bliss, this book argues that the single woman embodies the tensions between tradition and progress in both middlebrow and modernist literary culture.

Modernism and Physical Illness

Author : Peter Fifield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198825420
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Physical Illness written by Peter Fifield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. S. Eliot memorably said that separation of the man who suffers from the mind that creates is the root of good poetry. This book argues that this is wrong. Beginning from Virginia Woolf's 'On Being Ill', it demonstrates that modernism is, on the contrary, invested in physical illness as a subject, method, and stylizing force. Experience of physical ailments, from the fleeting to the fatal, the familiar to the unusual, structures the writing of the modernists, both as sufferers and onlookers. Illness reorients the relation to, and appearance of, the world, making it appear newly strange; it determines the character of human interactions and models of behaviour. As a topic, illness requires new ways of writing and thinking, altered ideas of the subject, and a re-examination of the roles of invalids and carers. This book reads the work five authors, who are also known for their illness, hypochondria, or medical work: D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, and Winifred Holtby. It overturns the assumption that illness is a simple obstacle to creativity and instead argues that it is a subject of careful thought and cultural significance.