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South Riding

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While the project offers opportunities for development – improvements to transport, new housing, more jobs – the scheme is also open to abuse, particularly by the likes of Alderman Snaith, a slippery man who preys on the vulnerabilities of others. Original green cloth, spine lettered in purple and a little faded at tips, top edge green largely faded, a few smalls spots to edges and foxing to preliminary pages, lower edge roughtrimmed, faint partial browning to free endpapers and a few faint spots. It's an ensemble piece, structured around the activities of local government and the ways they intersect with the characters' lives. Its length and the varied and large array of characters reminded me of Victorian novelists like Eliot and Dickens.

Winifred Holtby (23 Jun 1898 - 29 Sep 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel "South Riding", which was posthumously published in 1936. Very good Vera Brittain handled her friend and companion's literary estate following Holtby's tragic early death in 1935.But when it happens I am usually much more enchanted by the book than by the series, however well made they are. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The councillors/aldermen are a mixed bunch, fallible human beings with mixed motives for what they do, but in general wanting to make a real improvement to the lives of local people and tackle issues head on. This enables Holtby to deal with the issues she felt were important; education, public health and the eradication of treatable diseases, ignorance, poverty and unemployment.

Persephone Books scored a notable success in 2008 with its reissue of The Crowded Street, in which the heroine Muriel Hammond rejects her life as a provincial wallflower for "an idea of service – not just vague and sentimental, but translated into quite practical things". She also had a successful career in journalism and wrote the first critical study of Virginia Woolf in English.Shetakes the mundane workings of local government and makes of them, perhaps surprisingly, an unforgettable fictional world.

Hand written limitation on the half-title page: 'This edition of 175 copies has been printed for the author's friends with a personal introduction by Vera Brittain. It is worth reading this novel to better understand the interwar years in England and the literature of the time. There is no nostalgia for the pre-WWI past there, most of the characters are middle class or working class, and the one main character who symbolizes the fading gentry, unable to cope with the present, let alone the future, doesn't have a "golden, idyllic past" since he's simultanously an update of Mr. Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A twelfth impression of the true first edition, published a couple of years after the first impression, but using the same attractive dustwrapper design. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it's more like having a well-read friend than a subscription to a literary review.

Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby had lived together in London after graduation and remained very close friends throughout Holtby's lifetime. With her flaming red hair and forthright nature, Sarah is far from the archetypal mousy spinster; instead she is bright, optimistic and fiercely committed to the development of young women. As you say, it’s a tragedy that this author died at such a young age, at the height of her powers with South Riding.



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