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Winifred Holtby
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: Christie's Old Organ, Jessica's First Prayer, A Peep Behind the Scenes
'Even when Winifred could read with the effortless rapidity that she never lost, she found her own stories and poems more entertaining than the sentimental pieties of "Christie's Old Organ", "Jessica's First Prayer" and "A Peep Behind the Scenes".
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby Print: Book
Algernon Charles Swinburne : Super Flumina Babylonis
'One late evening in the dim firelight of our rooms at Oxford after the War, she turned from reading aloud to me Swinburne's "Super Flumina Babylonis" - a favourite poem associated in her mind with war-time loss and all premature death - and opened the notebook which contained her copies of Bill's verses.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby Print: Book
Thomas Hobbes : The Leviathan
'In "The Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes on Political Science, she found for her quotation page a passage which exactly fitted the theme:'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby Print: Book
Walter Raleigh : unknown
'Before that illumined moment of rich inspiration, Winifred had been experimenting with other kinds of writing, and studying such treasure-troves of style as the travel books of Sir Walter Raleigh and the prose works of Milton.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Richard II
'During our Oxford years the works to which she turned most frequently were Shakepeare's "Richard II", Raleigh's "Discovery of Guiana", Milton's "Areopagitica", the writings of John Wyclif, Blake's "Minor Prophecies", and the plays of Bernard Shaw.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby Print: Book
Stella Benson : Living Alone
After reading "Living Alone" in 1923, Winifred wrote Stella a letter of appreciation. When no answer arrived she concluded that Stella Benson, like so many authors, put her "fan mail" in the wastepaper basket, but months afterwards a reply came from South China.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby
Joseph Conrad : Suspense
'Winifred did not care, for she was reading Conrad's "Suspense" - a noble and spacious book which made the early nineteenth century come alive for her in a clear yet faint glow like candlelight."
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby Print: Book
George Moore : Heloise and Abelard
'Jean's friend lent her George Moore's "Heloise and Abelard" - "one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should have been and was not," Winifred confessed, lamenting that she was required to present prizes just when she wanted to finish it. In spite of the novel's length and these interruptions, its owner reported that Winifred returned it, read from cover to cover, within a couple of days.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby Print: Book
Virginia Woolf : unknown
'At that time Winifred's Derbyshire contemporary, the poet and novelist Thomas Moult, was editing a series of "Modern Writers on Modern Writers". When he invited her to contribute a volume and choose her own author, she selected Virginia Woolf, whose novels she had always admired, as a deliberate exercise in intellectual discipline.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby Print: Book
St. John Ervine : God's Soldier
'She pinned it to her coat; and returned to London reading the 1349 closely-typed pages of St. John Ervine's recently completed biography of General Booth, "God's Soldier".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby Print: Book
Thomas Edward Lawrence : Seven Pillars of Wisdom
'When "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" appeared at the end of July 1935, Winifred reviewed it in "Time and Tide".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby Print: Book
Liddell Hart : T.E. Lawrence in Arabia and After
'But perhaps her most appropriate comment on the end of Lawrence's tormented life had been made the previous year in a review of Liddell Hart's "T.E. Lawrence in Arabia and After".'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby
Vita Sackville-West : The Land
'On the flyleaf of her novel she quoted from V. Sackville-West's pastoral poem, "The Land", a verse which testified to her abiding sense of the Yorkshire that made her.'
