Winifred Holtby, "A Woman In Her Time": Critical Essays brings together for the first time a range of scholarly perspectives on one of Britain's best-loved regional authors. Remembered for her vivid portrayal of 1930s rural Yorkshire in her final novel, South Riding (1936) and for her friendship Other Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) has become a key figure for those interested in British literature, politics, and culture between the wars. Epitomising the professional independence an...