 |  | | | Winifred Holtby | 14 Dec 2006 | | |
It's 70 years since Winifred Holtby's classic novel South Riding was published, just six months after the early death of its author, aged 37. And the book has never been out of print since. Winifred was a great friend of novelist Vera Brittain, who paid posthumous tribute to her in her book, Testament of Friendship. Yet there are those who would say that that tribute says more about its author than about its subject. So who was Winifred Holtby, and how good a writer was she? Jane Worsley has been hearing from Holtby's biographer Marion Shaw and from Vera Brittain's daughter, Dame Shirley Williams. | |
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