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The Clear Stream
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.
Remember, Remember!
This selection of Winifred Holtby's short stories is drawn from her two published volumes, TRUTH IS NOT SOBER and PAVEMENTS OF ANDERBY, which were published posthumously by her two friends, Vera Brittain and Hilda Reid and have been collected here in one volume for the first time. Brightly written, in an unselfconscious, matter-of-fact style, these stories are irreverent and entertaining, fulfilling what she saw as the short story's purpose in a reader's life: 'nice for chance guests - easy to pick up and more tantalising for one's bedside than a novel'. Many of these stories are autobiographically based, and feature the Yorkshire farming community in Rudston where she was brought up. This was the setting for her most famous novel, SOUTH RIDING, also published posthumously. Some of the stories relate to the last years of her life when she was contending with the incessant headaches and nausea of Bright's disease.
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South Riding
NOW A BRITISH DRAMA FILM AND A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION ADAPTATION. A preface by Shirley Williams, an introduction by Marion Shaw and an epitaph by Vera Brittain. 'Rich in humour and worldly insight' INDEPENDENT 'The novel undoubtedly remains a fascinating depiction of a time and place' GUARDIAN 'Holtby's personal masterpiece . . . I can't say enough good things about this book' SARAH WATERS When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress she is full of ambition, determined to create a great school and to inspire her girls to take all they can from life. But in the aftermath of the First World War, the country is in depression and ideals are hard won. Lydia Holly, the scholarship girl from the shacks, is the most brilliant student Sarah has ever taught, but when her mother's health fails, her education must be sacrificed. Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall stands for everything Sarah despises: his family has farmed the South Riding for generations, their position uncontested. Yet Sarah cannot help being drawn to this proud, haunted - and almost ruined - man. South Riding is a rich, panoramic novel, bringing vividly to life a rural community on the brink of change.
Remember, remember
Diez relatos sobre mujeres en distintas etapas de la vida y diferentes opciones. La prosa de Holtby se desarrolla sin sentimentalismo, en beneficio de la complejidad y el análisis de sentimientos y pasiones contenidas, pero muy poderosas. Sus cuentos están repletos de comprensión y conocimiento de la psicología femenina y sus trampas. Una variedad de estilos los recorren sirviéndose de puntos de vista narrativos a menudo sorprendentes. En esta selección realizada y traducida por Gora Zaragoza, Holtby, escenifica el final de una etapa y el comienzo de una nueva era en la posición de las mujeres. Frente a las mujeres obsesionadas con preservar y transmitir el legado de una época pasada, Holtby opone a esas protagonistas, un grupo de mujeres reivindicativas, libres, con voz propia y más poderosas, como ocurre en los relatos «Los acreedores», «La justicia de la reina» o «La mujer engañada». A reseñar por su agudeza, la implacable actitud de la anciana de “Acuérdate...” que da título al libro.
