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Winifred Holtby

Born

in Rudston, East Riding, Yorkshire, England, The United Kingdom

June 23, 1898

Died

September 29, 1935

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Winifred 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.

She was a good friend of Vera Brittain, possibly portraying her as Delia in The Crowded Street.

She died at the age of 37.

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Average rating: 3.9 · 5,316 ratings · 771 reviews · 58 distinct works • Similar authors

	South Riding by Winifred Holtby, Marion Shaw (Introduction), Shirley Williams (Preface) 3.99 avg rating — 3,436 ratings — published 1936 — 105 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crowded Street 3.91 avg rating — 486 ratings — published 1924 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Land of Green Ginger 3.56 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 1927 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anderby Wold 3.70 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 1923 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poor Caroline 3.64 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1931 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir by Winifred Holtby, Marion Shaw (Preface by) 4.03 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1932 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remember, Remember!: The Selected Stories by Winifred Holtby, Marion Shaw (Editor), Paul Berry (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance 3.72 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1933 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women and a Changing Civilization 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1978 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters to a Friend by Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (editor), Jean McWilliam (editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1937 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Winifred Holtby (?)

“We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.”
― Winifred Holtby, South Riding

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“But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence”
― Winifred Holtby, South Riding

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“I am a feminist because I dislike everything that feminism implies. I desire an end to the whole business, the demands for equality, the suggestion of sex warfare, the very name feminist. I want to be about the work in which my real interests like, the writing of novels and so forth. But while inequality exists, while injustice is done and opportunity denied to the great majority of women, I shall have to be a feminist. And I shan't be happy till I get . . . a society in which there is no distinction of persons either male or female, but a supreme regard for the importance of the human being. And when that dream is a reality, I will say farewell to feminism, as to any disbanded but victorious army, with honour for its heroes, gratitude for its sacrifice, and profound relief that the hour for its necessity has passed.”
― Winifred Holtby

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February 2016 New School Group Read

1947, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, 283 pages

25 votes, 18.1%

1950, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages

20 votes, 14.5%

1979, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, 396 pages

15 votes, 10.9%

1908, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton, 198 pages

13 votes, 9.4%

1954, Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, 113 pages

13 votes, 9.4%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 360 pages

10 votes, 7.2%

1934, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, 318 pages

10 votes, 7.2%

1966, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, 288 pages

8 votes, 5.8%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages

8 votes, 5.8%

1947, If This Is a Man by Primo Levi, 398 pages

4 votes, 2.9%

1956, The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque, 448 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1936, South Riding by Winifred Holtby, 492 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1962, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 640 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1985, Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, 274 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

138 total votes

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