Biografía

23 de junio de 1898 · Rudston, East Riding of Yorkshire, Inglaterra, Reino Unido

29 de septiembre de 1935 · Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido (una enfermedad del riñon)

Holtby was educated at home by a governess and then at Queen Margaret's School in Scarborough.

She was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel South Riding, which was posthumously published in 1936.

Although she passed the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford, in 1917, she chose to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in early 1918 but soon after she arrived in France, the First World War came to an end and she returned home. During this period, Holtby met Harry Pearson, the only man who stimulated romantic feelings in her, due primarily to his tales of the suffering soldiers endured during the war.

In 1931 she was diagnosed as suffering from Bright's disease. Her doctor gave her only two years to live. Aware of her impending death, Holtby put all her remaining energy into what became her most important book, South Riding. Winifred Holtby died on 29 September 1935, aged 37. She never married, though Harry Pearson proposed to her on her deathbed, possibly at the instigation of Vera Brittain.

In 1919, she returned to study at the University of Oxford where she met Vera Brittain, a fellow student and later the author of Testament of Youth, with whom she maintained a lifelong friendship.

[on work] Without work, I'm nothing.