Letters - Winifred Holtby to Vera Brittain

Reference No:
L WH/6/6.1/06/05c
Dates:
31 Oct 1925
Description:
Letter from Winifred Holtby to Vera Brittain - describing her journey to and stay at Lady Rhondda's Kent home, and her first meeting with an with Lady Rhonnda; first meeting with St John Ervine, Observer Dramatic Critic and author of Jane Clegg, Parnell and Mary Mary; Mrs Archdale; Wrvine great friend of Hardy, Mrs Ervine great friend of Mrs Shaw, the Ervines also know Rebecca West, HG Wells, Sinclair Lewis, WJ Locke, Sheila Kaye Smith, GB Stern, Noel Coward; Belfast; Malcolm MacDonald, son of Ramsey; pacifism, Bloomsbury writers, Strachey, Virginia Woolf; Rebecca West's affair with HG Wells; Lady Rhondda's brush with death on the Lusitania, sentenced to five days in prison, in Wales, for pouring something into a pillar box, released after going on hunger strike; Henry Ainley; Gertie Millie, Dr Cullis; Baldwin; Mrs Cazlet; Yeats; Lady Gregory; Margot Asquith; Lady Warwick; Charlie Chaplin; James Agate; Naomi Royd-Smith; Edith Sitwell; Sylvia Lynd; Lillian Bayliss of The Old Vic; Sinclai Lewis; VICTORY by Joseph Conrad; AA Milne
Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 item
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull Local Studies Library
Collection:
Winifred Holtby Collection