Anderby Wold

Author: Winifred Holtby
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 0748130926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
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.

Anderby Wold

Author: Winifred Holtby
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748130926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

The Clear Stream

Author: Marion Shaw
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 1405514779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
Winifred Holtby was a prolific journalist and writer whose most famous work South Riding is on many university courses. She was an active campaigner for several progressive causes during the inter-war period such as pacifism, feminism and most important to her, racial equality and harmony in South Africa. She was the subject of Vera Britain's Testament of Friendship. She was essentially a 'woman in her time' and yet could also be seen as an index to many of the progressive movements which were around in the pre-war days and in this sense she was indeed a 'clear stream'. Written in a wonderfully accessible style interspersed with excellent research as well as warmth from one born in the same district as Winifred herself this is the definitive biography of a woman ahead of her time.

South Riding

Author: Winifred Holtby
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 527

Book Description
"South Riding" by Winifred Holtby. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Winifred Holtby's Social Vision

Author: Lisa Regan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317322894
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Riding. This is the first monograph to provide a literary criticism of Holtby’s social philosophy and presents in-depth readings of all her major works as well as some of her less well-known writing.

British Journal of Nursing

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Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Category : Nursing
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Aftermaths of War

Author: Ingrid Sharp
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004191720
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455

Book Description
This volume of essays provides the first major comparative study of the role played by women’s movements and individual female activists in enabling or thwarting the transition from war to peace in Europe in the crucial years 1918 to 1923.

The Politics of 1930s British Literature

Author: Natasha Periyan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350019860
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
Drawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s British Literature tells the story of a school-minded decade and illuminates new readings of the politics and aesthetics of 1930s literature. In a period of shifting political claims, educational policy shaped writers' social and gender ideals. This book explores how a wide array of writers including Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Winifred Holtby and Graham Greene were informed by their pedagogic work. It considers the ways in which education influenced writers' analysis of literary style and their conception of future literary forms. The Politics of 1930s British Literature argues that to those perennial symbols of the 1930s, the loudspeaker and the gramophone, should be added the textbook and the blackboard.

Corruption in Urban Politics and Society, Britain 1780–1950

Author: John Smith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351948318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
Despite much recent interest in the area of urban governance, little work has been done on the changing ethical standards of urban leaderships, 'governing' institutions or the policing of public life. Yet the issue of ethical standards in public life has become a central concern in contemporary public discourse; with issues of public probity, moral order and personal standards re-emerging as central features of political debate. This volume places these debates into their historical perspective by examining the linkages between processes of 'modernisation', urbanisation and the ethical standards of governance and public life. It considers how ethical debates arise as a result of differential access to positions of authority and from competition for public resources. The contributions are drawn from a wide range of scholarly and disciplinary backgrounds and provide a broad analysis of the phenomenon of corruption, assessing how debates about corruption arose, the narratives used to criticise established modes of public conduct and their consequences for urban leadership.