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abortion, 67, 164, 166

Abyssinia (Ethiopia), 104, 108, 116, 122,
124, 127, 1334
coronation, 104
invasion by Italy, 134
Adler, Alfred, 84
see also, psychology
Anderson, Benedict, 20, 21, 138
Anglo-Catholicism, 86, 935
see also, religion
Anlaby, 26n12
anti-Semitism, 912, 158
Arnold, Matthew, 12
Auden, W. H., 140, 159

Brittain, Vera, 4, 8, 9, 10, 16, 19, 25, 46, 48,

49, 55, 64, 68, 74, 75, 92, 104, 118,
133, 135, 140, 144, 145, 154, 155, 162,
164, 178
and Anderby Wold, 26, 33
Chronicle of Youth, 52
The Dark Tide, 512
as Delia in The Crowded Street, 46
and feminism, 6, 86
and First World War, 45, 46
friendship with Holtby, 4, 6, 656, 85n18
as Holtbys literary executor, 156, 177
Honourable Estate, 166n117
on Poor Caroline, 845, 88
as Rachel in The Land of Green Ginger,
65
semi-detached marriage, 88
Testament of Friendship, 4, 5, 845, 130
Testament of Experience, 1578, 159
Testament of Youth, 46
travels with Holtby, 92
on Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir, 82
Brockway, Fenner, 118, 145
Bront, Charlotte, 30
Jane Eyre, 29, 43, 116n62
Shirley, 30, 412, 89
Bront, Emily, 47, 75
Wuthering Heights, 47
Burdekin, Katharine, 159
Buxton, Charles Roden, 10, 120

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Ballinger, Margaret (nee Hodgeson), 177

see also, Hodgeson, Margaret
Ballinger, William, 113, 117, 119, 130, 132,
148, 155, 177
Bantu Mens Social Centre, 11718, 177
Barstow, Stan, 17980
BBC, 110, 179
Bennett, Arnold, 14, 103
Benson, E. F., 29
Benson, Stella, 16, 46n71, 56, 63, 656, 70,
100, 123, 130, 140
Goodbye, Stranger, 6971
Bentley, Phyllis, 61, 134, 138, 145, 154, 173
The English Regional Novel, 139, 1467
Bethnal Green, 10, 49, 50, 101, 171, 178
Bhabha, Homi, K., 20, 21, 136, 1378, 171
birth control, 6, 7, 88, 133, 152, 1614, 166
Boer War, 74, 110, 162
Brailsford, (Henry) Noel, 106
British Commonwealth League, 133
British Union of Fascists (BUF), 154, 156
see also, fascism; Mosley, Oswald

Catlin, George, 10, 83,

on fascism, 1579, 161
on Mandoa, Mandoa!, 123
marriage to Brittain, 65, 88
on Poor Caroline, 84
Cavalcade (film), 110, 114, 115

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Chakravarty, Amiya, 132

China, 55, 60, 65, 66
see also, Benson, Stella
cinema, 20, 79, 83, 90, 91, 10710, 114,
115, 120, 137
Clay, Catherine, 6, 17, 49, 656, 6970,
87, 104
Colour Bar Act (Mines and Works Act), 10,
106, 113, 169
Communism, 10, 105, 158
Bolshevism, 78
cosmopolitanism, 15, 2021, 90, 107, 108,
1301, 133, 134, 136, 137, 139, 172
Cottingham, 4, 26, 48
Council for Promoting Equality of Civil
Rights between White and Coloured
Peoples, 132
Creech Jones, Arthur, 118, 120
Dalby Forest, 67
Davies, Andrew, 17980
de Coundouroff, Margaret (Holtbys
adopted sister), 45
Delafield, E. M., 16
Dickens, Charles, 73
Hard Times, 734
dramatic dialogue, 83, 160

New Feminism and Old Feminism,

68, 20, 152
pre and post war comparison, 867
and race, 11
and Sarah Burton in South Riding,
14952
see also, Open Door Council; Six Point
Group; transnationalism
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 93
First World War, 3, 13, 14, 15, 31, 40, 42,
44, 63, 64, 67, 76, 96, 110, 113, 148,
155
and immunity, 446
maternal jingoism, 59
and non-combatant, 127, 155
returning soldiers, 38, 40, 534, 59,
612, 701, 956, 97, 104, 127
and sacrifice, 52
War service, 34, 25, 173
see also, Pearson, Harry
Forster, E. M., 116, 130, 139
France, 62, 95, 97, 114
Abbeville, 3, 45, 173
Huchenneville, 45
see also, Holtby, Winifred, Trains in
France
Freud, Sigmund, 42, 83, 84
see also, psychology; spinster

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Eliot, George, 75, 136, 146
Eliot, T. S., 13, 49, 67, 95, 117, 139
see also, Anglo-Catholicism
Ellison, Grace, 116
emigration, 54, 625, 66, 85, 91, 95
Empire Romance, 645
Ervine, St John, 85n18
fascism, 11, 18, 139,140, 168
and anti-rationalism, 157, 1589
corporate state, 1701
gender ideology, 140, 155
Olympia Meeting, 1589
see also, Holtby, Winifred, Take Back
Your Freedom
female friendship, 4, 5, 6, 17, 25, 49, 58, 60,
626, 67, 94, 133
feminism, 68, 81, 116, 133, 135, 137, 173
and community, 1718
equality versus difference, 7

Galsworthy, John, 14
Garnett, Maxwell, 173
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 2930
General Strike (1926), 26
Germany, 90, 98, 114, 139, 162
see also, Nazism
Good Housekeeping, 1, 6, 143
Graves, Robert, 59n23
Greenwood, Walter, 146
Love on the Dole, 1456
Hall, Radclyffe, 100
Hamilton, Cicely, 162
Hardy, Thomas, 75, 147
Harris, Percy, 10
Hertzog, General, 106, 113
Hobbes, Thomas, 301, 32, 39, 115
Hodgeson, Margaret, 132n121, 133n126, 155
see also, Ballinger, Margaret

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Holderness, 138
Holtby, Alice, 3, 23, 85, 1445
Holtby, David, 3, 26, 84
Holtby, Grace, 84, 164
Holtby, Winifred,
An Apology for Armourers, 123, 125,
126
Anderby Wold, 4, 9, 18, 19, 24, 25,
2640, 49, 51, 53, 85, 136, 147, 174
The Astonishing Island, 135, 1403, 147,
159, 166
The Crowded Street, 18, 19, 24, 25, 30,
4054, 56, 62, 66, 75, 86, 88, 96, 155,
167, 174
The Dead Man, 46
The Debt, 46
Efficiency First, 87
Eutychus or the Future of the Pulpit, 823,
160
The Land of Green Ginger, 16, 19, 20, 21,
54, 5579, 89, 92, 95, 97, 100, 101,
108, 128, 130, 136, 164, 174
Mandoa, Mandoa!, 11, 20, 21, 22, 79,
91, 10334, 135, 139, 145, 148, 153,
155, 170, 171, 174, 175, 176
The Maternal Instinct, 125
Missionary Film, 109
A New Voters Guide to Party Programmes,
10, 83
Poor Caroline, 11, 16, 19, 20, 79,
81101, 123, 127, 130, 137, 174
The Runners, 89
South Riding, 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16,
21, 22, 27, 38, 42, 52, 74, 79, 85, 88,
134, 13572, 174, 175, 178, 179, 180
Take Back Your Freedom, 135, 15560,
166
The Third-Class Concert, 689
Trains in France, 45
Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir, 14,
16, 567, 82, 59
The Voice of God, 159
The Voorloper Group, 111
Women and a Changing Civilisation, 45,
11, 18, 96, 98, 157, 1612, 163, 165,
170, 173, 1756, 1789
Hornsea, 147
Hull, 4, 23, 26, 55, 98, 142

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Hungary, 55, 71, 78, 92

Huxley, Elspeth, 121
Imperialism, 20, 22, 53, 74, 91, 1057, 108,
113, 114, 127, 139, 147, 149, 175
Independent Labour Party, 10, 11, 36, 90,
101, 118, 125
Imperialism Committee, 118, 174
see also, socialism
India, 37, 38, 62, 78, 106, 107, 109, 110,
120, 131
position of women, 176
self-governance, 106, 112
Industrial and Commercial Workers Union
(ICU), 105, 106, 117120, 148, 174
intermodernism, 16
internationalism, 20, 107, 126, 160, 175
Iran (Persia), 778, 176, 136
Ireland, 378
Isherwood, Christopher, 159
Italy, 162, 166

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Jameson, Margaret Storm, 49, 61, 123, 159
Joint Council to Promote Understanding
Between White and Coloured People
in Great Britain, 132
Joint Select Committee on Closer Union in
East Africa, 105
White settler support for Closer Union,
113
Joyce, James, 49
Kadalie, Clements, 11719, 120, 177
Kemal Pasha, Mustapha, 116, 176
Kennard, Jean, 5, 10, 17
Kenya, 12, 105, 106, 11213, 1203, 124,
125, 127, 132, 142
Kenyatta, Johnstone ( Jomo), 113, 133
Labour Party, 9, 34, 125, 178
and Catlin, 10, 157
Holtby joins, 9
Holtbys support for candidates in the
General Election, 10
Imperial Advisory Committee, 111, 132
see also, socialism
Laski, Harold, 173
Lawrence, D. H. 75, 92, 99, 1567, 157n79
Lawrence, T. E., 131

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League of Coloured Peoples, The, 19, 1323

League of Nations, 105, 106, 117, 122, 123,
124, 127, 134
League of Nations Union, 4, 7, 49, 56, 68,
77, 128, 173, 174, 175
lesbianism, 4
Lewis, Ethelreda, 117, 11820
Wild Deer, 120
Leys, Norman, 2n4, 105, 11213, 121, 125,
133, 148
Kenya, 112, 121
Last Chance in Kenya, 121
Liberia, 114, 133
Livie-Noble, Frederick, 132
London Group on African Affairs, 132
Ludovici, Anthony, 5
Macaulay, Rose, 94,
review of Mandoa, Mandoa!, 104, 114
MacMillan, W. M., 177
McWilliam, Jean, 33, 36, 37, 40, 41, 54, 57,
58, 63, 78, 100, 148, 178
and Holtbys visit to South Africa, 556,
60
on Holtby writing a South African novel,
56
War service, 4, 45, 57
see also, emigration
Manchester Guardian, 6, 43n62, 165n109,
169
Mandate System, 1056, 107, 118, 129, 141
Mansfield, Katherine, 67
Marson, Una, 1334, 173
Marx, Karl, 27, 312, 34, 83, 177
Marxism, 11, 33
see also, socialism
Mass observation, 140
Mayor, Flora M, 41
Middlebrow, 1217, 28, 49, 70, 136
cinema, 137
Millin, Sarah Gertrude, 3, 923, 118
Mitchison, Naomi, 16, 88, 173
review of Women and a Changing Civilisation, 1789
Mockerie, P.G., 113, 177
Modernism, 13, 15, 17, 67, 139
and empire, 21
Monte Carlo, 90, 95, 978

Moody, Harold, 132, 133

Mosley, Oswald, 1535, 1578, 170
as influence on Take Back Your Freedom,
156
views on women, 155, 169
see also, British Union of Fascists (BUF);
fascism
motherhood, 59n23, 162, 166, 167, 179
maternal mortality, 65, 165, 176
motherhood endowment, 166
and nationalist ideology, 153, 166, 169
Mussolini, Benito, 153, 166
National Council for, Civil Liberties, 154
nationalism, 20, 53, 78, 107, 126, 139, 147,
160, 161
African, 113
and gender, 59
see also, motherhood and nationalist
ideology
National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC), 6
Nazism, 93n46 139, 162, 1689, 170
New Leader, 113, 118
New Statesman, 14, 111, 176
New Woman, 29, 42, 87, 94, 100
Lyndall as role model, 52, 76
News Chronicle, 104, 155
Nicolson, Harold, 77, 156

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Olivier, Lord, 120

Open Door Council, 6
Orwell, George, 140,
Oxford, University of, 3, 4, 6, 25, 26, 27, 63,
90, 147, 173, 180
pacifism and pacificism, 70, 160, 131
Palestine, 62, 923, 176
patriotism, 20, 140, 149
see also, First World War
Pearson, Harry, 1301
Pim, Howard, 132
Polson, Philippa, 179
Priestley, J. B. 137, 140
English Journey, 1256, 142, 145
psychology, 46, 84, 95, 98, 141, 150, 155
Queen Margarets School, 3
Quiver, The, 171n36

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race, 11, 81, 92, 1313
racial segregation, 11314, 169
racism, 132
Radio Times, The, 6, 135, 141
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 578, 69, 104
Rathbone, Eleanor, 6, 152,
The Disinherited Family, 116n62
Reid, Hilda, 1
religion, 1, 24, 70, 823, 96, 108, 141
see also, Anglo-Catholicism
Rhondda, Margaret, 98, 132, 152, 154
first meeting with Holtby, 6
and Holtby as a writer, 12, 84, 103
on Poor Caroline, 84
This was My World, 150, 151
Rhys, Jean, 49, 130
Voyage in the Dark, 67
Round the Empire (film), 110, 114
Rudston, 3, 4, 26, 173
Russell, Bertrand, 1011
Said, Edward, 21, 101, 142, 175
affiliation, 19, 67
Sackville-West, Vita, 88
The Land, 136
Passenger to Teheran, 779
Saville, Victor, 1367, 138, 179
Sayers, Dorothy, 94
Scarborough, 138
Schoolmistress, The, 6, 135, 145, 150, 168
Schreiner, Olive, 89
From Man to Man, 89, 30
The Story of an African Farm. 52, 756
Thoughts on Africa, 129
Woman and Labour, 52
Schreiner, Oliver, 92, 118
Second World War, 1367, 99, 138, 139,
154, 168, 170
Selassie, Haile, 105, 133, 134
Shakespeare, William, 57
As You Like It, 4
Macbeth, 58n17
A Midsummer Nights Dream, 58n17
Shaw, George Bernard, 159
Shaw, Marion, 3, 4, 6, 107, 111, 117, 119,
120
Shiels, Drummond, 113
Sinclair, May, 41, 42, 70
Six Point Group, 6, 49

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slavery, 106, 110, 1215, 126, 128, 129

socialism, 10, 11, 27, 28, 32, 336, 37, 54,
86, 106, 131, 144, 149
Clydeside socialism, 161
English ethical socialism, 11
see also, Independent Labour Party;
Labour Party; Marx, Karl; Marxism
Socialist League, 132
Society of Friends of Africa, 132
Somerville College, 3, 94, 180
see also, Oxford, University of
Somerville, Mary, 48
South Africa, 7, 8, 9, 1011, 19, 22, 54,
556, 58, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 745, 76,
77, 85, 90, 112, 113, 122, 130, 147,
1489, 173, 174, 177
Bloemfontein, 74
driving in, 100
emigration to, 63, 64
Holtbys lecture tour of, 7, 55, 77, 105,
11718, 131
Johannesburg, 10, 101, 118, 120
see also, Winifred Holtby Memorial
Library
missionaries, 63, 67, 109
voyage to, 68
see also, Ballinger, William; Kadalie, Clements; Lewis, Ethelreda
South Riding (film), 1367, 179
South Riding (television), 17980
spinster, 19, 289, 413, 47, 64, 79, 81, 84,
85, 89, 94, 108
Holtbys status as, 4, 19, 43
and mothers, 125
psychosexual stereotyping, 45, 151
teachers, 22, 147, 1501, 167
as viewed by fascists, 155
Stopes, Marie, 1624
Sudan, 104, 109, 121, 124, 127

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Time and Tide, 6, 19, 49, 89, 94, 97, 104,
110, 135, 150, 167, 173, 174
and Efficiency First, 87
Holtbys first article for, 6, 10
trade unions, 10, 26, 27, 29, 32, 34, 35, 36,
56, 78, 81, 91, 92, 106, 177
see also, Industrial and Commercial
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transnationalism, 20, 1267, 175

transnational complicities, 1237
Tshekedi case, 132
Turkey, 116,
Uganda, 105, 113, 124, 127, 132
Union of Democratic Control, 118
Versailles, Treaty of, 141
Wallace, Diana, 5, 167, 168
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 89, 130
Lolly Willowes, 89
Mr Fortunes Maggot, 141
Waugh, Evelyn, 49, 95,
Black Mischief, 104, 117
Vile Bodies, 989
Webb, Sidney, 125
Wells, H. G., 14, 131
West, Rebecca, 16, 70, 84, 104
Whately, Monica, 10, 104
White, Evelyne, 1689
Wilkinson, Ellen, 153, 167
Williams, Raymond, 2, 1213, 21, 32, 35,
39, 138

Williams, Shirley, 19n97, 179

Winifred Holtby Memorial Library, 1768
Withernsea, 154, 155
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 173
Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC),
34, 23, 25, 45, 59, 63
Woodman, Dorothy, 154
Woolf, Virginia, 13, 14, 20, 49, 70, 127, 130,
139
and the Elizabethans, 57
and middlebrow, 14
Between the Acts, 110, 139n18
Jacobs Room, 82, 108
Orlando, 100
A Room of Ones Own, 59
Three Guineas, 96
The Voyage Out, 58, 60
see also, Holtby, Winifred, Virginia
Woolf: A Critical Memoir
Woolf, Leonard, 11112, 125
Workers Herald, 119

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Yorkshire Post, 36, 98, 173
Yorkshire Television, 179