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Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 September 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel South Riding, which was posthumously published in 1936. Biography [ edit ]
First edition (publ. Collins) 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 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize was presented from 1967 until 2003 by the Royal Society of Literature for the best regional novel of the year. [1] It is named after the novelist Winifred Holtby who was noted for her novels set in the rural scenes of her childhood.
Winifred Holtby Academy (previously Bransholme High School, Winifred Holtby School, Winifred Holtby Technology College) is a coeducational secondary school located in the Bransholme area of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
South Riding, a book from 1936 by Winifred Holtby, featuring a fictional South Riding of Yorkshire South Riding (film) , a film from 1938 based on the novel South Riding , a thirteen-part ITV TV series from 1974 based on the novel
South Riding is a BBC serial in three parts from 2011, based on the 1936 novel South Riding by Winifred Holtby. It is directed by Diarmuid Lawrence and written by Andrew Davies. It stars Anna Maxwell Martin, David Morrissey, Peter Firth, Douglas Henshall, Penelope Wilton and John Henshaw.
Fludd is a novel by Hilary Mantel.First published by Viking Press in 1989, it won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize that year. [1]The novel is set in 1956, in Fetherhoughton, a dreary and isolated fictional town somewhere on the moors of northern England.
This version features Cheryl Campbell as Vera Brittain, Peter Woodward as Roland Leighton, Joanna McCallum as Winifred Holtby and Emrys James and Jane Wenham as Vera's parents. In 1998, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Armistice , a 15-part radio dramatisation of the letters on which Testament of Youth was partly based was broadcast ...