 |  | | | Winifred Holtby | 09 August 2007 | | |
Writer, pacifist and left wing campaigner.
It is 70 years since Winifred Holtby's classic novel South Riding was published, just six months after the early death of its author at the age of 37. Winifred was a great friend of novelist Vera Brittain, who paid posthumous tribute to her in her book Testament of Friendship - although there are those who would say that the tribute says more about its author than 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, Baroness Shirley Williams.
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