Winifred Holtby

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Winifred Holtby (born June 23, 1898 in Rudston , Yorkshire , England , † September 29, 1935 ) was a British writer and feminist .

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After attending school she studied at Somerville College of Oxford University and performed during the First World War from 1917 to 1918 a voluntary service in the Relief Corps ( Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps ) of the British Army in France . On her return to England she became a journalist and was the director of Time and Tide magazine from 1926 until her death .

As a writer, she has written numerous novels that focus on strong women. Her best-known works include The Crowded Street (1924), The Land of Green Ginger (1927) and, above all, her last and most successful book South Riding (1935). She fell ill with kidney disease in 1931 and died of it in 1935.

She was best known through the autobiography Testament of Friendship , written by Vera Brittain in 1940 , which is largely a biography of Winifred Holtby and in which the longstanding close friendship between the two women was described.

In German language their major works have not yet been published; In 1983, the novel was The people of Kiplington of Gunter and Reinhild Böhnke translated .

In her honor, the Royal Society of Literature awarded the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize from 1967 to 2002 for the best regional novel of the year, which includes Catherine Cookson (1968), Anita Desai (1978), Adam Thorpe (1992) and Giles Foden (1999) received.

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SURNAME Holtby, Winifred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudston , Yorkshire , England
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1935