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I am a feminist because I dislike everything that feminism implies. I desire an end to the whole business, the demands for equality, the suggestion of sex warfare, the very name feminist. I want to be about the work in which my real interests like, the writing of novels and so forth. But while inequality exists, while injustice is done and opportunity denied to the great majority of women, I shall have to be a feminist. And I shan't be happy till I get . . . a society in which there is no distinction of persons either male or female, but a supreme regard for the importance of the human being. And when that dream is a reality, I will say farewell to feminism, as to any disbanded but victorious army, with honour for its heroes, gratitude for its sacrifice, and profound relief that the hour for its necessity has passed.


Winifred Holtby


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As well as her journalism Holtby wrote 14 books including six novels; two volumes of short stories; the first critical study of Virginia Woolf (1932); and "Women and a Changing Civilization" (1934) a feminist survey with opinions that are still relevant today. Vera Brittain wrote about her friendship with Holtby in her book Testament of Friendship (1940) and in 1960 publiWinifred Holtbyd a censored edition of their correspondence. Holtby's early novels - Anderby Wold (1923) The Crowded Street (1924) (re-publiWinifred Holtbyd by Persephone Books in 2008) and The Land of Green Ginger (1927) - met with moderate success.

Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 - 29 September 1935) was an English novelist and journalist best known for her novel South Riding about a Yorkshire community struggling with the Depression of the 1930s.

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