South Riding: (Virago Modern Classics)
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Winifred Holtby (Author) Marion Shaw (Contributor)
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Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) was an English journalist and novelist. Holtby 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. This was adapted into a British Drama film and later a television adaptation by the BBC. She wrote a lot of literary fiction, biographies and memoirs. She was a good friend of Vera Brittain, possibly portraying her as Delia in The Crowded Street. She died at the age of thirty-seven.
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- Contributor: Winifred Holtby
- Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780860689690
- Number of Pages: 544
- Packaged Dimensions: 130x198x38mm
- Packaged Weight: 373
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Release Date: 2010-11-26
- Series: Virago Modern Classics
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) was an English journalist and novelist. Holtby 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. This was adapted into a British Drama film and later a television adaptation by the BBC. She wrote a lot of literary fiction, biographies and memoirs. She was a good friend of Vera Brittain, possibly portraying her as Delia in The Crowded Street. She died at the age of thirty-seven.
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