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On her death, Holtby left a small legacy and her own collection of books to a library in the South African township of Soweto, which was opened in December 1940. It was named the Winifred Holtby Memorial Library. It was the first library to be built in Africa specifically for non-Europeans.
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.
September 29 – Winifred Holtby, English novelist (Bright's disease, born 1898) [56] October 11 – Steele Rudd, Australian short story writer (born 1868) [57] November 4 – Ella Loraine Dorsey, American author, journalist and translator (born 1853) [58] November 28; Mary R. Platt Hatch, American author (born 1848) [59]
South Riding, a book from 1936 by Winifred Holtby, featuring a fictional South Riding of Yorkshire; South Riding, a film from 1938 based on the novel; South Riding, a thirteen-part ITV TV series from 1974 based on the novel; South Riding (2011 TV series), a three-part BBC TV miniseries from 2011 based on the novel
Between these two books comes Testament of Friendship (published in 1940), which is essentially a memoir of Brittain's close colleague and friend Winifred Holtby. A final segment of memoir, to be called Testament of Faith or Testament of Time, was planned by Brittain but remained unfinished at her death.
Winifred Holtby – South Riding [11] Aldous Huxley – Eyeless in Gaza; Michael Innes – Death at the President's Lodging; C. L. R. James – Minty Alley; Mikheil Javakhishvili – A Woman's Burden (Georgian: ქალის ტვირთი, Qalis tvirti) Storm Jameson. None Turn Back (The Mirror in Darkness III) In the Second Year; Arthur ...
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), South Riding; Stewart Home (born 1962) Charles Hooton (1810–1847) Anthony Hope (1863–1933), invented Ruritania for The Prisoner of ...