Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 September 1935) was an English novelist, journalist, feminist, social activist, short story writer, and poet, known for her 6th novel South Riding (novel) South Riding (published posthumously in 1936). Quotes Mr Anthony: A Young Man about Bloomsbury...Anthony: It might be said, of course, that in England itself the pulpit has hardly even had a past. We are, as our diplomatic representatives continually explain to an incredulous continent, a people averse to generalization. We love the concrete, the improvised, and the particular, whereas the sermon deals with the abstract, the predetermined, and the general. Englishmen are not on the whole interested in ideas. We prefer to judge by the event rather the principle. We would sooner watch the bodies of men contesting for a Ball (association football) football than their minds wrestling with a theory. Eutychus: Or, The Future of the Pulpit. A Short Treatise in the form of a Plain Dialogue, suggested as a possible epilogue to Fénelon's Dialogues sur l'Eloquence Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Ltd 1928 https://books.google.com/books?id=43y3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA8 5 & 8–9 (142 pages; wikiquote François Fénelon) Few races depend upon the speed at which Islanders themselves can run, like ours on Tristan, but upon horses, greyhounds, motor-cars, motor-cycles, or aeroplanes. Horses are the most popular. If an Islander says he is "keen on racing," he means he buys an early evening edition of his daily paper at noon, in order to learn which horse an unknown gentleman or lady writing under the sobriquet of the "General," or the "Major," thinks it most likely to run the fastest in a horse-race at half-past three. Some Islanders even go to watch the horses run, but most do not, because to go requires time and money, and Islanders prefer to spend their time reading prophecies about horses in the paper, and their money on something called the Tote betting Tote which takes if the horse they thought would win. The Astonishing Island: Being a Veracious Record of the Experiences Undergone by Robinson Lippingtree Mackintosh from Tristan Da Cunha During an Accidental Visit to Unknown Territory in the Year of Grace MCMXXX-? Translated by Winifred Holtby Macmillan 1933 36 (182 pages; satire; 1st part of quote; last part of quote) Women, they told themselves, had been excluded from the highly-skilled and better-paid industrial posts for two or more generations. They had been told that certain processes were beyond their power. It was a lie. ** Women and a Changing Civilisation Twentieth century library, ed. by V.K. Krishna Menon John Lane 1934 https://books.google.com/books?id=NykpAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=better-paid 112 (213 pages) The Carnes, she knew, were not Poor People. Poor people lived in cottages; the Carnes lived in a English country house Hall, which was the biggest house for miles round, with a Smoking room#Historical use in private British houses smoking-room and a breakfast-room and three sets of staircases and a top floor nobody ever used now, and a Driveway drive nearly half a mile long. Book I. Chapter 1. Lord Sedgmire's Granddaughter Awaits an Alderman South Riding: An English Landscape https://books.google.com.kh/books?id=KrLoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT27 Read Books Ltd 2020 9781528790307 (605 pages; 1st edition of novel South Riding (novel) South Riding published in 1936 by Collins) Quotes about Winifred Holtby ... Holtby's sixth and finest novel, South Riding (novel) South Riding, was published six months after her death, aged 37, from Bright's disease. Returning to the world of her Yorkshire upbringing, Holtby created a moving portrait of a rural community struggling with the effects of the depression. She takes the mundane workings of local government and makes of them, perhaps surprisingly, an unforgettable fictional world....South Riding deals with a range of social issues, including education, unemployment, local building programmes, Poor relief in England poor relief and the treatment of the insane. While the documentary element in the novel is pronounced, however, its story and characters are vivid. Mark Bostridge, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/19/south-riding-winifred-holtby-rereading Winifred Holtby's South Riding. Winifred Holtby's 'forgotten masterpiece', set in a Yorkshire town during the depression, has been adapted by Andrew Davies for the BBC. Mark Bostridge looks at her short life and career The Guardian 18 February 2011 External links The Story of Winifred Holtby and the Yorkshire Wolds 16 March 2020 The Historic England Blog (heritagecalling.com) https://heritagecalling.com/2020/03/16/the-story-of-winifred-holtby-and-the-yorkshire-wolds/ Winifred Holtby Hull History Centre (hullhistorycentre.org.uk) https://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/research/research-guides/winifred-holtby.aspx (with link to a reading list) Category:1898 births Category:1935 deaths Category:Civil rights activists Category:Feminists from England Category:Journalists from England Category:Novelists from England Category:People from Yorkshire Category:Short story writers from England Category:Socialists from England Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:Women activists from England Category:Women journalists from England Category:Women authors from England