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HOLTBY, WINIFRED; SHAW, MARION (NEW INTRODUCTION). Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir.
The Continuum Publishing Company, New York: 2007. New Edition. s Softcover. Brand new book.
Wiifred Holtby gives us Virginia Woolf the critic, the essayist, the experimenter and the 'unfinished woman' in this wonderful critical memoir, written as her contemporary. First published in 1932 this book represents the first critical work on Woolf. Begun before the publication of The Waves, the author had to revise the text in light of its publication. This edition includes a new critical introduction by Marion Shaw, Holtby's biographer, which places the book in its historical and cultural context. Winifred Holtby's writing is of particular interest, because it is the work of one intelligent novelist commenting upon another. Holtby relates her own careful reading and imaginative insights to the living context of English letters in the 1930s. She is not dazzled bby exotic Bloomsbury and its scandals, though she has something to say about 'the advantages of being Virginia Stephen,' refreshingly, it is the writer's intentiions and effects that concern Holtby, the inner lives of the characters, not the private life of Virginia Woolf. With lively candour and unslavish and unslavish respect she talks about what really matters to her: the complex, groundbreaking work of a contemporary writer at the height of her career. Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) was a novelist, journalist and social reformer reformer, who campaigned for the causes of peace and feminism, and for the improvement of the working conditions of black workers in South Africa. She was a great friend of Vera Brittain who wrote a tribute to her in Testament of Friendship. Holtby's most famous, and last work was her novel, South Riding, published posthumously in 1936.
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