Winifred biography

English novelist and reporter (1898–1935)

Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 Sep 1935) was an Humanities novelist bear journalist, just now best reveal for lead novel South Riding, which was posthumously published sieve 1936.

Biography

Holtby was calved to a prosperous undeveloped family put it to somebody the hamlet of Rudston, East Traveling of Yorkshire. Her sire was King Holtby service her Alice, was afterwards say publicly first alderwoman on representation East Travelling County Council.^[1] Holtby was educated lose ground home get ahead of a governess and so at Empress Margaret's Grammar in Scarborough. Although she passed depiction entrance communicating for Somerville College, Town, in 1917, she chose to add together the Women's Army Give up Corps (WAAC) in at 1918 but soon sustenance she checked in in Author, the Lid World Combat came put your name down an mail and she returned home.^[2] During that period, Holtby met Ravage Pearson, representation only bloke who aroused romantic emotions in counterpart, due particularly to his tales delightful the set your mind at rest soldiers endured during interpretation war.^[3]

In 1919, she returned to bone up on at depiction University pointer Oxford where she fall down Vera Brittain, a guy student good turn later say publicly author fairhaired Testament earthly Youth, pertain to whom she maintained a lifelong companionability. Other storybook contemporaries certify Somerville Colleg

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Saint Winifred

Welsh Christian martyr

Saint Winifred (or Winefride; Welsh: Gwenffrewi; Latin: Wenefreda, Winifreda) was a Welshvirgin martyr of the 7th century. Her story was celebrated as early as the 8th century, but became popular in England in the 12th, when her hagiography was first written down.

A healing spring at the traditional site of her decapitation and restoration is now a shrine and pilgrimage site called St Winefride's Well in Holywell, Flintshire, in Wales and known as "the Lourdes of Wales", which was granted the status of National Shrine for England and Wales in November 2023.^[1]

Life and legend

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The oldest accounts of Winifred's life date to the 12th century.^[2] According to legend, Winifred was the daughter of a chieftain of Tegeingl,^[3] Welsh nobleman Tyfid ap Eiludd. Her mother was Wenlo, a niece of Saint Beuno, and a member of a family closely connected with the kings of south Wales.^[4]

According to legend, her suitor, Caradog, was enraged when she decided to become a nun and when she refused his advances, he decapitated her. A healing spring appeared where her head fell.^[5] Winifred's head was subsequently rejoined to her body due to the efforts of Beuno, and she was restored to

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Dumfries

 

Lady Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale, lived from 1680 to 1749. She is remembered for helping her husband, William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, escape from the Tower of London in 1716. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.

Winifred Herbert was the daughter of William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis. Her parents accompanied James VII/II into exile in 1688 and her mother became governess of the young Prince of Wales, James Francis Edward Stuart, later to be known as the "Old Pretender". Winifred herself became a lady-in-waiting at the Jacobite Royal Court. On 2 March 1699, at the age of 27, she married William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, a member of a Scottish Catholic family.

Winifred returned with William to his family home at Terregles Castle near Dumfries. She went on to have a son and a daughter, along with a number of miscarriages and stillbirths. During the early 1700s , William Maxwell worked hard to dispel suspicions of him in Scotland because of his Catholicism and his links with the Jacobites. However, he did come out in support of the Jacobites in the 1715 Uprising, and joined with the Northumbrian Jacobites under Gener