Winifred Holtby(1898-1935)
- Writer
English writer Winifred Holtby was born in Rudston, East Riding of Yorkshire, England in 1898. She was educated at Queen Margaret's School and Somerville College in Oxford, although her education was interrupted by a year's service in the Women's Signal Unit of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps during World War I. After graduating from Oxford in 1921 she headed to London, where she got a job at the magazine "Time and Tide", and in 1926 became the magazine's director. In addition to her writing and editing duties, she also travelled around Europe as a lecturer for the League of Nations Union.
In 1931 she began to suffer from the heart disease that would eventually cause her death, but she kept on working, both on the magazine and writing novels (she finished her novel "South Riding" only four weeks before she died). She wrote a biography of writer Virginia Woolf in 1932 and published several novels and non-fiction works before she died in London, England, in 1935. She was buried in her beloved home town of Rudston.
In 1931 she began to suffer from the heart disease that would eventually cause her death, but she kept on working, both on the magazine and writing novels (she finished her novel "South Riding" only four weeks before she died). She wrote a biography of writer Virginia Woolf in 1932 and published several novels and non-fiction works before she died in London, England, in 1935. She was buried in her beloved home town of Rudston.
