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Free Thinking: Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby

Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby

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Matthew Sweet is joined by Rachel Reeves MP, Jane Thomas and Katie Cooper in Hull.

Rachel Reeves MP, Professor Jane Thomas and Dr Katie Cooper discuss the novel South Riding and the political life of Winifred Holtby with Matthew Sweet and an audience in Hull.

Rachel Reeves MP, Hull academic Jane Thomas and New Generation Thinker Katie Cooper discuss the novel South Riding and the writing and politics of Winifred Holtby with Matthew Sweet and an audience in Hull at the Contains Strong Language Festival. With readings by Rachel Dale.

Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 September 1935) came from a farming family in Yorkshire, met Vera Brittain at Oxford University and shared a house in London as they began their careers as writers.  Brittain went on to publish Testament of Youth. Holtby made her name with journalism for newspapers including the Manchester Guardian and the feminist magazine Time and Tide and published 14 books including the first critical study of Virginia Woolf.  When her doctor gave her only two more years to live, she devoted herself to writing her novel South Riding which was published the year after she died aged 37. 

Rachel Reeves is Labour MP for Leeds and the author of books including Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics
Jane Thomas is Professor of Victorian and early 20th century literature at Hull University.

Dr Katie Cooper teaches at the University of East Anglia and is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker working on a project exploring writers' organisations and free expression. 

Contains Strong Language is the BBC's national poetry and spoken word festival which took place in Hull for the first time 3 years ago as part of the City of Culture celebrations. 

You can find other Free Thinking discussions about books, paintings and films which are Landmarks of Culture in a playlist on the website https://bbc.in/2Jw9y5Q 
including the writing of Audre Lorde, Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag, Buchi Emecheta, Doris Lessing, and Iris Murdoch amongst others. 

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