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South Riding

By: Winifred Holtby

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NOW A BRITISH DRAMA FILM AND A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION ADAPTATION. A preface by Shirley Williams, an introduction by Marion Shaw and an epitaph by Vera Brittain. 'Rich in humour and worldly insight' INDEPENDENT 'The novel undoubtedly remains a fascinating depiction of a time and place' GUARDIAN 'Holtby's personal masterpiece . . . I can't say enough good things about this book' SARAH WATERS When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress she is full of ambition, determined to create a great school and to inspire her girls to take all they can from life. But in the aftermath of the First World War, the country is in depression and ideals are hard won. Lydia Holly, the scholarship girl from the shacks, is the most brilliant student Sarah has ever taught, but when her mother's health fails, her education must be sacrificed. Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall stands for everything Sarah despises: his family has farmed the South Riding for generations, their position uncontested. Yet Sarah cannot help being drawn to this proud, haunted - and almost ruined - man. South Riding is a rich, panoramic novel, bringing vividly to life a rural community on the brink of change.

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Virago

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0748130500

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9780748130504

Remember, Remember!

The Selected Stories of Winifred Holtby

By: Winifred Holtby,Marion Shaw,Paul Berry

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Remember, Remember!

The Selected Stories of Winifred Holtby

By: Winifred Holtby,Marion Shaw,Paul Berry

This selection of Winifred Holtby's short stories is drawn from her two published volumes, TRUTH IS NOT SOBER and PAVEMENTS OF ANDERBY, which were published posthumously by her two friends, Vera Brittain and Hilda Reid and have been collected here in one volume for the first time. Brightly written, in an unselfconscious, matter-of-fact style, these stories are irreverent and entertaining, fulfilling what she saw as the short story's purpose in a reader's life: 'nice for chance guests - easy to pick up and more tantalising for one's bedside than a novel'. Many of these stories are autobiographically based, and feature the Yorkshire farming community in Rudston where she was brought up. This was the setting for her most famous novel, SOUTH RIDING, also published posthumously. Some of the stories relate to the last years of her life when she was contending with the incessant headaches and nausea of Bright's disease.

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306

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Virago Press

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1860491642

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9781860491641

The Land Of Green Ginger

A Virago Modern Classic

By: Winifred Holtby

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The Land Of Green Ginger

A Virago Modern Classic

By: Winifred Holtby

Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire. There she dreams of the far-off lands she will visit and adventures to come. At eighteen, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his way to the trenches of the First World War. Joanna has been in love before - with Sir Walter Raleigh, with the Scarlet Pimpernel, with Coriolanus - but this is different. Teddy tells her he's been given the world to wear as a golden ball. Joanna believes him and marries him, but the fabled shores recede into the distance when, after the war, Teddy returns in ill health. The magic land turns out to be the harsh reality of motherhood and life on a Yorkshire farm. Yet still she dares to dream.

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209

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Virago

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0748130934

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9780748130931

The Crowded Street

in large print

By: Winifred Holtby

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The Crowded Street

in large print

By: Winifred Holtby

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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338730692X

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9783387306927

Mandoa, Mandoa!

A Comedy of Irrelevance

By: Winifred Holtby

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Mandoa, Mandoa!

A Comedy of Irrelevance

By: Winifred Holtby

One of the exciting books of this period . . . it strikes a wholly new note in the catalogue of books about Africa' KIRKUS REVIEWS Mandoa is a small African state: at its head a Virgin Princess, conceiving (immaculately) further princesses. The old traditions remain undisturbed until Mandoa's Lord High Chamberlain, Safi Tala, visits Addis Ababa. There he discovers baths and cocktail shakers, motor cars and cutlery from Sheffield, telephones and handkerchiefs. In short, he has seen an apocalyptic vision - a new heaven and a new earth. Meanwhile in England it is 1931. Maurice Durrant, youngest director of Prince's Tours Limited, has won North Donnington for the Conservatives. His socialist brother Bill is unemployed and their friend Jean Stanbury loses her job on The Byeword, a radical weekly paper. How all three, and others too, find themselves in Mandoa for the wedding of the Royal Princess to her Arch-archbishop is hilariously told in this wonderful satirical novel, first published in 1933.

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312

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Virago

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0748130896

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9780748130894

Anderby Wold

By: Winifred Holtby

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Anderby Wold

By: Winifred Holtby

Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic cousin, John. Together they battle to preserve Mary's neglected inheritance: their beloved farm, Anderby Wold. This labour of love - and the benevolent tyranny of traditional Yorkshire ways - has made Mary old before her time. Then into her purposeful life comes David Rossitur. Young, red-haired, charming, eloquent: how can she help but love him? But David is from a different England - radical and committed to social change. As their confrontation and its consequences inevitably unfold, Mary's life and that of the calm village of Anderby are changed forever.

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0748130926

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9780748130924

South Riding - An English Landscape

By: Winifred Holtby

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South Riding - An English Landscape

By: Winifred Holtby

“South Riding” is a 1936 novel by Winifred Holtby, published posthumously. Set in fictional South Riding in Yorkshire, England, it revolves around the lives of young headmistress Sarah Burton, unhappy husband Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall, socialist Joe Astell, and Alderman Mrs Beddows. 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 feminist Six Point Group. Holtby's fame was derived mainly from her journalism, including articles for the feminist journal 'Time and Tide', but she also wrote 14 books. These include six novels; two volumes of short stories; the first critical study of Virginia Woolf (1932) and "Women and a Changing Civilization" (1934), a feminist survey with opinions that are still relevant. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material.

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Read Books Ltd

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1528790308

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9781528790307

Anderby Wold

By: Winifred Holtby

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South Riding

An English Landscape

By: Winifred Holtby

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An English Landscape

By: Winifred Holtby

When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress she is full of ambition, determined to create a great school and to inspire her girls to take all they can from life. But in the aftermath of the First World War, the country is in depression and ideals are hard won. Lydia Holly, the scholarship girl from the shacks, is the most brilliant student Sarah has ever taught, but when her mother's health fails, her education must be sacrificed - there is nobody else to care for the children. Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall stands for everything Sarah despises: his family has farmed the South Riding for generations, their position uncontested. Yet Sarah cannot help being drawn to this proud, haunted - and almost ruined - man. South Riding is a rich, panoramic novel, bringing vividly to life a rural community on the brink of change.

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Virago Press

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0860689697

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9780860689690

Mandoa, Mandoa!

A Comedy of Irrelevance

By: Winifred Holtby

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A Comedy of Irrelevance

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Mandoa, Mandoa!

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Mandoa, Mandoa!

By: Winifred Holtby

A comedy of irrelevance by Winifred Holtby, 1898-1935.

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Wildside Press

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1434426165

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9781434426161

Remember, remember

By: Holtby, Winifred

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Remember, remember

By: Holtby, Winifred

Diez relatos sobre mujeres en distintas etapas de la vida y diferentes opciones. La prosa de Holtby se desarrolla sin sentimentalismo, en beneficio de la complejidad y el análisis de sentimientos y pasiones contenidas, pero muy poderosas. Sus cuentos están repletos de comprensión y conocimiento de la psicología femenina y sus trampas. Una variedad de estilos los recorren sirviéndose de puntos de vista narrativos a menudo sorprendentes. En esta selección realizada y traducida por Gora Zaragoza, Holtby, escenifica el final de una etapa y el comienzo de una nueva era en la posición de las mujeres. Frente a las mujeres obsesionadas con preservar y transmitir el legado de una época pasada, Holtby opone a esas protagonistas, un grupo de mujeres reivindicativas, libres, con voz propia y más poderosas, como ocurre en los relatos «Los acreedores», «La justicia de la reina» o «La mujer engañada». A reseñar por su agudeza, la implacable actitud de la anciana de “Acuérdate...” que da título al libro.

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El Nadir

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849367446X

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9788493674465

Eutychus, Or the Future of the Pulpit Apella Or the Future of the Jews Vicisti, Galilaee? Perseus, of Dragons

By: Reviewe Holtby,Holtby Reviewer Powley Stokes

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Eutychus, Or the Future of the Pulpit Apella Or the Future of the Jews Vicisti, Galilaee? Perseus, of Dragons

By: Reviewe Holtby,Holtby Reviewer Powley Stokes

Eutychus Or the Future of the Pulpit Winifred Holtby Originally published in 1928 "Few wittier or wiser books have appeared in this stimulating series." Spectator "...delicious fun." Guardian A dialogue between Archbishop Fénelon, who stands for the great ecclesiastical tradition of preaching, Anthony, who stands for the more superficial intellectual movements in England and Eutychus, the ordinary man, investigates the nature of the pulpit. 134pp Apella or the Future of the Jews A Quarterly Reviewer Originally published in 1925 "Cogent, because of brevity and magnificent prose style...It should not be missed." Spectator "...his arguments are a provocation to fruitful thinking." Morning Post This volume attempts to foresee the future of the Jews across the world, in the light of their previous history, the situation in Russia and the modern developments of Zionism. Inter-marriage, Jewish nationalism, Jewish religion and reform movements are among the subjects discussed. 90pp Vicisti, Galilaee? Or Religion in England: A Survey and a Forecast Edward B Powley Originally published in 1929 "...a book to be read, thought over, and discussed by all Christians who are not afraid to take the shutters down." Guardian Who was Jesus? How did Christianity begin, become orthodox, receive recognition as the state religion of the Roman Empire? What has been the history of Christianity in England? This volume discusses these questions and surveys of state of English churches in the early 20th century. 114pp Perseus, of Dragons H F Scott Stokes Originally published in 1924 "A diverting little book...both quaint and various." Morning Post This volume gives an account of the dragon in history: in ancient Greece, in early Christendom and in modern Europe and explains how the dragon-story originated from the myths and customs of pre-historic Egypt. The author then maintains that in twentieth century England the dragon is not dead, that the characteristics of respectability, bigotry and cant represent the modern day dragon. 70pp

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0415463432

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South Riding

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Anderby Wold

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South Riding - An English Landscape

South Riding - An English Landscape

Anderby Wold

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South Riding

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Mandoa, Mandoa!

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Mandoa, Mandoa!

Remember, remember

Remember, remember

Eutychus, Or the Future of the Pulpit Apella Or the Future of the Jews Vicisti, Galilaee? Perseus, of Dragons

Eutychus, Or the Future of the Pulpit Apella Or the Future of the Jews Vicisti, Galilaee? Perseus, of Dragons

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