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- Partly based on Holtby's experiences as a teacher and her childhood memories of growing up in the East Riding, South Riding was a classic feminist novel that offered a panoramic view of English society which took in all social levels from lords to labourers, as the authoress demonstrates the ways in which they are affected by decisions taken by local government.
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First published in 1936 this is a marvelously femenist novel. Set in the fictional South Riding, with much of the story concerning local poitics, and the different characters and factions associated with the county council, alongside other local people.
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From the Audible audiobook description: “Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Winifred Holtby’s greatest novel was published posthumously Winifred Holtby’s masterpiece is a rich evocation of the lives and relationships of the characters of South Riding. Sarah Burton, the fiery young headmistress of the local girls’ school; Mrs Beddows, th...
From the original review by L.P Hartley in The Observer (London, March 1, 1936: “Miss Winifred Holtby’s Last Novel” The title of Miss Holtby’s latest and, unhappily, her last novel suggests à fabulous setting, but as a matter of fact, there is nothing other-worldly in South Riding. Even without the help of the map on the jacket we could identify th...
1938: The first film adaptation1974: Adaptation for Yorkshire Television1999: The radio version was broadcast on BBC Radio 42011: BBC Television Series(three parts)South Riding is a novel by Winifred Holtby, published posthumously in 1936. The book is set in the fictional South Riding of Yorkshire: the inspiration being the East Riding rather than the modern South Yorkshire; Holtby's mother, Alice, was the first alderwoman on the East Riding County Council. [1] The leading characters are Sarah Burton, an ...
May 26, 2020 · Winifred Holtby (1898 – 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, best known for her novel South Riding. She was, an passionate feminist, socialist and pacifist and was a member of the...
Dec 16, 2020 · Their meeting is described in three of Vera Brittain’s books: her 1923 debut novel The Dark Tide, her 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, and the memoir published after Winifred Holtby’s death, Testament of Friendship (1940). Both women graduated with second-class degrees in 1921.
Winifred Holtby was a journalist and writer, a pacifist, anti-racist campaigner, critic of fascism and a renowned feminist. Her life was cut tragically short by kidney disease, and she died in 1935, one month after completing South Riding, which she called her ‘Farm and School’ novel.
Nov 30, 2020 · South Riding is a novel that evokes the lives of people in a Yorkshire community that is trying to recover from the tumult of the First World War. Former soldiers, local politicians, religious leaders and the working men who struggle to make a living: all are conscious that their world is changing.
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