Winifred Holtby

The Land of Green Ginger

Comic novel of women in Yorkshire dealing with romance and family

About the author

Winifred Holtby
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.

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