Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby - Softcover

Showalter, Elaine; Showalter, English

 
9780349012285: Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0349012288 ISBN 13: 9780349012285
Verlag: Virago, 2023

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The fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby, written from 1920 to 1935, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship that created a model for a new kind of independent woman, after the First World War.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Elaine Showalter author of A Literature of Their Own, A Jury of their Peers among many books, is professor emerita at Princeton University.

English Showalter is a professor emeritus of French literature at Rutgers University. He was an editor of Correspondance de Madame de Graffign and has written on the eighteenth-century French novel and Camus. They live in Washington DC.

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The letters between Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth, and Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding. A fascinating story of friends who intended - and did - make their mark as writers and campaigners.

'Expertly and sensitively edited... a true partnership of two women valiantly, imperfectly, trying to find new ways to live' Samantha Ellis, Guardian

From the time when they met at Somerville College, Oxford, until Winifred's early death at the age of thirty-seven, their letters, written from 1920 to 1935, encouraged and advised and kept them 'continuously together' even through periods as literary rivals when they had to negotiate envy and self-doubt.

'The relationship at their centre is endlessly intriguing... touching and inspiring' Rachel Cooke, Observer

Vera decisively influenced Winifred's passion for feminism and peace and Winifred gave Vera crucial support, fiercely believing in her literary gifts.

'A beautiful collection' Daisy Dunn, Sunday Times

A portrait of the inter-war years and a dramatic, touching and ultimately tragic story.

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Verlag
Virago
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349012288
ISBN 13 
9780349012285
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
496
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Hachette Ireland, Hachette UK
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