Winifred Holtby était une socialiste et une féministe engagée, qui a créé son roman classique comme une critique sociale chaleureuse mais percutante de la communauté agricole aisée dans laquelle elle est née. Son écriture explore les relations complexes et les inégalités sociales qu'elle a observées, en faisant preuve d'un regard aiguisé et d'un cœur compatissant. Holtby s'est concentrée sur l'impact des structures sociales sur la vie des individus, révélant souvent les motivations cachées et les prétentions de ceux qui étaient au pouvoir. Ses œuvres restent pertinentes pour leur analyse sans concession des distinctions de classe et leur plaidoyer en faveur de la justice sociale.
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Collection of letters written to Jean Findlay McWilliam.
The first 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 and adventures to come. At eighteen, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his way to the trenches of the First World War. Joanna has been in love before - with Sir Walter Raleigh, with the Scarlet Pimpernel, with Coriolanus - but this is different. Teddy tells her he's been given the world to wear as a golden ball. Joanna believes him and marries him, but the fabled shores recede into the distance when, after the war, Teddy returns in ill health. The magic land turns out to be the harsh reality of motherhood and life on a Yorkshire farm. Yet still she dares to dream.
Features a story about the need to withstand the tyranny of sex success.
A rich, panoramic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the Thirties that carries surprising and refreshing echoes of our own time.
A warm-hearted satire, first published in 1931, by the author of SOUTH RIDING.
Jižní okres je rušný, životem kypící obraz života části Yorkshiru, života, jehož osou jest okresní rada, její výnosy, rozhodnutí, příběhy jejich členů, obchodníků obilím, statkářů, soukeníků a lidí malého města anglického.Postavy a obrazy jsou podány se strhující životností aodvahou, za kterou cítíme soucit a hlubokou lásku k člověku.
