Summary
A new TV tie-in edition of Winifred Holtby’s classic novel South Riding, accompanying Andrew Davies’s three-part adaptation for BBC1.
The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and devastated by loss, they must also come to terms with significant social change.
Forward-thinking and ambitious, Sarah Burton is the embodiment of such change. After the death of her fiancé, she returns home to Yorkshi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849902038 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849902038 |
| Author: | Winifred Holtby |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | BBC Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 375g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 126mm x 198mm |
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Winifred Holtby
Winifred Holtby was born in 1898, the daughter of David Holtby, a prosperous Yorkshire farmer, and Alice Holtby, the first alderwoman in Yorkshire. Educated at home by a governess and then at a boarding school, Holtby passed the entrance exam for Somerville College but left in early 1918 to join the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.
After the war, she returned to Somerville College where she met Vera Brittain and the two became lifelong friends. They graduated together in 1921 and moved to London, where they hoped to establish themselves as writers. While Vera’s first two novels, The Dark Tide (1923) and Not Without Honour (1925), met with little success, Winifred had much more of an impact with Anderby Wold (1923), The Crowded Street (1924), and The Land of Green Ginger (1927).
Holtby was diagnosed with Bright’s Disease (sclerosis of the kidneys) in 1932 and was told she would only have two or three years to live. Determined to get as much work done as possible before the disease took its inevitable toll, she put all her energy into what became her most important book, South Riding.
Winifred Holtby died on 29th September 1935. South Riding was published the following year and was highly praised by the critics.
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