Winifred Holtby
HAVE been trying to think of any writer of recent years round whom such a cult has grown as has sprung up around the author of " South, Riding ’-Winifred Holtby. Around T. E. Lawtence, yes: but that is due less to his writings than to his brilliant and almost fantastic campaign among the Arabs. Around James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence-yes, they were most decidedly the centres of cults; but the circle of their readers and admirers was greatly enlarged-I don’t say com-posed-by people for whom any banned book has an irresistible attraction, and they were pioneers in certain aspects of literature. Now Winifred Holtby was in a sense ordinary. She initiated nothing new in literary forms or literary style; she was no strange, aloof being; her virtues were such as many people possess. She only stands out through being on a slightly grander scale than most of us-a little more vigorous, more determined, more idealistic, warmer-hearted, with a better brain and a greater genius for friendship--("A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Winifred Holtby,’ Margaret Johnston, 2YA, March 15.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 92, 28 March 1941, Page 5
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181Winifred Holtby New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 92, 28 March 1941, Page 5
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