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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 Other 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 an...
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Friendship. --- Journalists --- Journalists. --- Novelists, English --- Novelists, English. --- Brittain, Vera, --- Brittain, Vera, --- Holtby, Winifred, --- Holtby, Winifred, --- Friends and associates. --- 1900-1999. --- Great Britain.
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Women novelists, English --- Romancières anglaises --- Biography --- Biographie --- Brittain, Vera, --- Holtby, Winifred, --- Friends and associates. --- Biography.
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"Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt's Narrative Settlements resituates British women's writing between the wars in light of postcolonial theories of the novel and feminist geography. Reading works by Winifred Holtby, Vita Sackville-West, Angela Thirkell, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, Nesbitt argues that renewed attention to setting provides a methodological base for a more nuanced understanding of the aesthetic preoccupations of women writers between the wars. She provides not only attentive readings of literature during this contentious time, but a convincing argument for looking beyond modernism to locate the significance of interwar literary production."--Jacket.
English fiction --- Women and literature --- Feminism and literature --- Setting (Literature) --- Women in literature. --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Place (Literature) --- Authorship --- Drama --- Fiction --- Literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Technique --- Sackville-West, Vita. --- Holtby, Winifred. --- Woolf, Virginia. --- West, Rebecca. --- Warner, Sylvia Townsend. --- Thirkell, Angela Mackail. --- Englisch.
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