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

Showalter, Elaine; Showalter, English

 
9780349012292: Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0349012296 ISBN 13: 9780349012292
Verlag: Virago, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

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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[photo of the two women]

Vera to Winifred ` I do love your letters. They're just like broken-off conversations'

Winifred to Vera `Of course I shall keep your letter. I keep them all'

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These fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby tell the story of an extraordinary friendship.
A literary relationship that began when the women met at Somerville College, Oxford, in 1919, it lasted until Winifred's early death at the age of thirty-seven. The letters, written from 1920 to 1935, kept them 'continuously together', and show us the life of two pioneers who wished to make their mark as writers and campaigners. Each encouraged and advised the other. However, there were periods when they were literary rivals. Winifred landed a book deal first; Vera produced an international bestseller with Testament of Youth; and the letters show them negotiating envy and self-doubt. It was at times an uneven relationship: Vera, more than four years older, was married and had two children during this period, while Winifred, a single woman with an adventurous spirit, travelled and made a wide range of friends. As the heroine of her novel South Riding says, 'I was born to be a spinster and by God, I'm going to spin!' Vera decisively influenced Winifred's passion for feminism and peace; 'You made me,' Winifred told her. In turn, Winifred, who took care of Vera's children and placated her husband, gave Vera crucial intellectual and emotional support, fiercely believing in her literary gifts.

A portrait of the inter-war years and a dramatic, touching and ultimately tragic story, the letters have the hallmarks of honest female friendship: not without friction and with its own delicate co-dependency, but life-changing for them both.

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Verlag
Virago
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349012296
ISBN 13 
9780349012292
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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