Winifred Holtby affectionately observes the foibles of human nature in this sparkling satire, first published in 1931?Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccentric, dressed in trailing feathers and jangling b
The first novel by the author of South Riding?Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic cousin, John. Together they battle to preserve Mary's neglected inheritance, her
The third novel by the author of South Riding?Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire. There she dreams of the far-off lands she will visit a
Holtby gives us Woolf the critic, the essayist and the experimental novelist in a critical memoir which is of particular interest as the work of one intelligent, though very different, novelist commen
