Winifred Holtby
Holtby was a brilliant Yorkshire novelist cut off by tuberculosis at the height of her powers. South Riding, published posthumously, is a masterpiece of social portraiture, capturing the full complexity of a Yorkshire community in the 1930s.
Works
- South RidingNovel of rural life and women's roles in a Yorkshire county council election
- Poor Caroline
- The Land of Green GingerComic novel of women in Yorkshire dealing with romance and family
- Anderby WoldNovel of rural life depicting environmental destruction and human struggle
- Mandoa, Mandoa!Comic novel of British colonial administration in an African territory