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The Dark Tide
Bright and vivacious, Daphne Lethbridge is back at Oxford after a stint of volunteer work. World War I has ravaged Europe, but it has done nothing to daunt her spirit, and she plunges headlong into the whirl of college life. Her enjoyment, though, is soured by her cynical contemporary Virginia Dennison, who spars with Daphne on every occasion. Daphne seems to triumph over Virginia when she marries a rising political star, but it's not long before she begins to realize the bitter truth of her marriage. It takes a chance encounter with her old enemy for her disillusionment to give way to a mature understanding of love and friendship.
260 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1923
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Vera Brittain
66books275followersVera Mary Brittain was a British writer and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoirTestament of Youth,recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.
Her daughter is Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, who is a British politician and academic who represents the Liberal Democrats.
Her daughter is Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, who is a British politician and academic who represents the Liberal Democrats.
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July 2, 2021
Published ten years before her remarkable memoir of life and lossTestament of YouthBrittain’s debut novel reads like an early attempt to work through her ideas about living in the shadow of war, there are numerous traces of the feminist ideals increasingly important to her. The action revolves around an Oxford women’s college modelled on Somerville where Brittain completed her studies after WW1, so obviously draws extensively on personal experience. But, unexpectedly, its heroine’s not a version of Brittain, it’s close friend, and fellow author Winifred Holtby in the guise of the gauche Daphne Lethbridge. Daphne’s newly returned to Oxford after war work and thrown together with fellow returnee, stylish, enigmatic Virginia Dennison (Brittain). Despite similar backgrounds and ambitions, Daphne and Virginia seem set to become bitter rivals but suddenly become inextricably linked by a particularly cruel twist of fate.The Dark Tide’swildly uneven, early Oxford episodes are littered with scenes of late-night cocoa parties with dialogue that might have been lifted verbatim from girls’ boarding-school stories; it then veers into romance, bordering on melodrama, with Brittain’s depiction of two starkly contrasting relationships: one between two likeminded Oxford lecturers, the other a disastrous alliance between Daphne and her self-centred male tutor. A pairing that’s an act of vengeance on his part after Virginia rejects him.
Apparently, the book caused an uproar when it came out, it’s not a flattering portrait of Oxford, its students or its academics, whose true identities are very flimsily disguised. There’s been a lot of discussion too about Brittain’s supposedly self-promoting, spiteful characterisation of herself versus Holtby, the brilliant, beautiful, intellectual Virginia and the gangly, envious Daphne. But I wondered if this last reaction wasn’t partly misinterpretation, I felt there’s something verging on parody in her image of these two: they were living together in London when Brittain was finishing this, and by all accounts Holtby wasn't bothered by Brittain's portrayal of Daphne. The central female figures seem more like stand-ins than anything else, a slightly clumsy means of illustrating the different pathways on offer to the "superfluous" women of post-war England. The narrative’s almost a morality tale in its suggestions of where the wrong turning might lead. The worst personality by far’s Sylvester, based on Brittain’s tutor C. R. M. F. Cruttwell: infamous for referring to Oxford women as “breast-heavers,” so hated by another of his students Evelyn Waugh that for years afterwards despicable minor characters named Cruttwell kept cropping up in Waugh’s fiction. There’s something of a lament in Brittain’s presentation of Sylvester, despair at the tragic absurdity of men like him surviving the trenches where better men had died. Admittedly this is rough-hewn but it’s still a fascinating piece for any Brittain fan so maybe that’s why I found it so completely riveting.
Rating: 3.5
Apparently, the book caused an uproar when it came out, it’s not a flattering portrait of Oxford, its students or its academics, whose true identities are very flimsily disguised. There’s been a lot of discussion too about Brittain’s supposedly self-promoting, spiteful characterisation of herself versus Holtby, the brilliant, beautiful, intellectual Virginia and the gangly, envious Daphne. But I wondered if this last reaction wasn’t partly misinterpretation, I felt there’s something verging on parody in her image of these two: they were living together in London when Brittain was finishing this, and by all accounts Holtby wasn't bothered by Brittain's portrayal of Daphne. The central female figures seem more like stand-ins than anything else, a slightly clumsy means of illustrating the different pathways on offer to the "superfluous" women of post-war England. The narrative’s almost a morality tale in its suggestions of where the wrong turning might lead. The worst personality by far’s Sylvester, based on Brittain’s tutor C. R. M. F. Cruttwell: infamous for referring to Oxford women as “breast-heavers,” so hated by another of his students Evelyn Waugh that for years afterwards despicable minor characters named Cruttwell kept cropping up in Waugh’s fiction. There’s something of a lament in Brittain’s presentation of Sylvester, despair at the tragic absurdity of men like him surviving the trenches where better men had died. Admittedly this is rough-hewn but it’s still a fascinating piece for any Brittain fan so maybe that’s why I found it so completely riveting.
Rating: 3.5
October 11, 2018
Better known for her autobiographical works, in particular Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain also wrote a number of novels. The Dark Tide was in fact her first novel and, although I hesitate to say so, it shows. However, you don’t need to take my word for it because the author herself was fairly critical about this first attempt at fiction in her foreword to the reprinted 1935 edition. Although defending the accuracy of the novel’s depiction of the life of women students in the 1920s, she concedes ‘the crude violence of its methods and unmodified black-and-whiteness of its values’.
As Mark Bostridge, Vera Brittain’s biographer, observes in his introduction to the 1999 edition of The Dark Tide, the book created a minor sensation when first published on account of its portrayal of an Oxford women’s college (a thinly veiled Somerville College). It also risked causing offence to her friend, Winifred Holtby, caricatured as the character Daphne Lethbridge in the novel. He describes the characters in The Dark Tide as ‘not so much imaginatively redeveloped as simply transferred direct from fact to fiction’. One of the key scenes in the book describing a college debate in which Daphne and Virginia cross verbal swords re-enacts an actual event involving Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby during their time at Somerville (described by Brittain in Testament of Youth).
My main issue with the book is that I felt I was being invited to see aspects of Virginia’s character as faults when they seemed to me mostly positive traits. Conversely, Daphne, whom I felt I was supposed to admire, came across as spiteful, vindictive and envious of Virginia’s achievements and intellect. My view of Daphne was redeemed to a certain extent by her developing self-awareness at the book progresses but it’s difficult to like a character who displays snobbery such as in the following passage: ‘She flung her books and papers in a heap on the table, and took down her new green coat and skirt from the wardrobe. It was very expensive, and Daphne loved it – especially as it would make her appear such a contrast to Virginia. Virginia always seemed so fond of black; it was sheer affectation, Daphne thought, to adopt such a sombre style.’
The character I really liked was History Tutor, Miss O’Neill, for her kindliness towards the students. She came across as perceptive, intelligent and successful but not arrogant about that success; a really positive role model for a woman of that time. I do thought have to give the author credit for conveying the insular, slightly claustrophobic and at times bitchy atmosphere of an institution where people are thrown together in close proximity and in academic competition.
Towards the end of the book, I began to feel more sympathy for Daphne and the situation in which she finds herself. However, I still found myself frustrated at her submissiveness and how, for a clearly intelligent woman, she had the wool pulled over her eyes so comprehensively.
The Dark Tide is interesting from the point of view of its place in the evolution of Vera Brittain’s writing but I believe she definitely wrote better novels and that her non-fiction remains her crowning achievement. If you feel inclined to explore her fiction, Honourable Estate or Born 1925 may be better places to start.
As Mark Bostridge, Vera Brittain’s biographer, observes in his introduction to the 1999 edition of The Dark Tide, the book created a minor sensation when first published on account of its portrayal of an Oxford women’s college (a thinly veiled Somerville College). It also risked causing offence to her friend, Winifred Holtby, caricatured as the character Daphne Lethbridge in the novel. He describes the characters in The Dark Tide as ‘not so much imaginatively redeveloped as simply transferred direct from fact to fiction’. One of the key scenes in the book describing a college debate in which Daphne and Virginia cross verbal swords re-enacts an actual event involving Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby during their time at Somerville (described by Brittain in Testament of Youth).
My main issue with the book is that I felt I was being invited to see aspects of Virginia’s character as faults when they seemed to me mostly positive traits. Conversely, Daphne, whom I felt I was supposed to admire, came across as spiteful, vindictive and envious of Virginia’s achievements and intellect. My view of Daphne was redeemed to a certain extent by her developing self-awareness at the book progresses but it’s difficult to like a character who displays snobbery such as in the following passage: ‘She flung her books and papers in a heap on the table, and took down her new green coat and skirt from the wardrobe. It was very expensive, and Daphne loved it – especially as it would make her appear such a contrast to Virginia. Virginia always seemed so fond of black; it was sheer affectation, Daphne thought, to adopt such a sombre style.’
The character I really liked was History Tutor, Miss O’Neill, for her kindliness towards the students. She came across as perceptive, intelligent and successful but not arrogant about that success; a really positive role model for a woman of that time. I do thought have to give the author credit for conveying the insular, slightly claustrophobic and at times bitchy atmosphere of an institution where people are thrown together in close proximity and in academic competition.
Towards the end of the book, I began to feel more sympathy for Daphne and the situation in which she finds herself. However, I still found myself frustrated at her submissiveness and how, for a clearly intelligent woman, she had the wool pulled over her eyes so comprehensively.
The Dark Tide is interesting from the point of view of its place in the evolution of Vera Brittain’s writing but I believe she definitely wrote better novels and that her non-fiction remains her crowning achievement. If you feel inclined to explore her fiction, Honourable Estate or Born 1925 may be better places to start.
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Scrivere un commento in italiano ad un libro mai tradotto nella nostra lingua e andato persino fuori stampa in UK all'inizio non mi sembrava una grande idea, ma in fondo ogni mezzo per fare conoscere Vera Brittain nel nostro paese (nel Regno Unito è più che conosciuta per Testament of Youth, infatti non si spiega come tutto il resto della sua produzione sia andato quasi del tutto nel dimenticatorio) è lecito e merita lo sforzo.
Per me, Vera è sempre stata un mistero straordinario e inafferabile: una ragazza piena di sogni, infranti dalla guerra e dal dolore, che persi tutti quelli che davano colore e significato alla sua esistenza non ha mai smesso di lottare per andare avanti, risalire, continuare a vivere anche laddove il futuro sembrava ormai avvizzito, con la memoria come unica compagna e consolatrice possibile. Eppure, la vita per Vera non è finita: periti insieme al mondo di ieri, gli uomini della sua vita (il fidanzato, gli amici, il fratello) sono rimasti per sempre giovani nei suoi ricordi e presenti nel lungo impegno dell'autrice a sostegno di un pacifismo senza quartiere, ma il destino le ha egualmente donato una nuova anima gemella, nella forma di un'amica "geniale" e ambiziosa tanto quanto lei, un nuovo amore, due figli e soprattutto la carriera letteraria che aveva sempre desiderato. Sarà stato abbastanza? Chi lo sa.
Collocato nell'eccezionalità della vicenda personale di Vera, The Dark Tide è un libro reso curioso e interessante dalla sua valenza autobiografica e dagli eventi seguiti alla sua pubblicazione più che dal valore dell'opera in sè stessa: un romanzo d'esordio che si cala a pennello agli albori dei famigerati roaring twenties, nelle deliziose descrizioni di tessuti, abiti e cappellini ma anche di luoghi e ambienti sociali dell'epoca(si trovano perfino delle descrizioni puntuali e sentite di città e paesaggi della nostra Italia, paese dove morì l'adorato fratello Edward e che lei in seguito scelse di visitare e amare), in cui la Brittain si propone di inquadrare la sua vita universitaria subito dopo la fine della Guerra e del servizio prestato come infermiera volontaria che l'aveva condotta fino al fronte; si racconta del suo difficile ritorno alla normalità, dell'incapacità di essere compresa e dell'incontro con quella che più avanti avrebbe definito il suo "other self", Winifred Holtby, vera protagonista del romanzo, usando le identità fittizie della fiera Virginia e dell'ingenua Daphne ma senza sforzarsi più di tanto nello sfumare riferimenti autobiografici scomodi o sgradevoli per la diretta interessata.
Un'amicizia femminile che si mescola a colpi bassi e invidie adolescenziali (la Holtby doveva davvero tenere molto alla Brittain, considerato il modo in cui questa si è servita del romanzo per togliersi parecchi sassolini dalla scarpa degli anni di Oxford, accanendosi anche con una certa crudeltà sulle sfighe del personaggio di Daphne/Winifred), ma che al momento giusto ritrova la solidità di un legame più forte di qualsiasi screzio e rivalità: il tutto raccontato con una franchezza e un'attenzione agli spigolosi legami fra donne che precede di quasi un secolo le amiche geniali di Elena Ferrante e non è cosa da poco.
Un po' sbilanciato e imperfetto nella retorica di un finale che consacra il sacrificio della propria felicità e ambizione alla causa di un pacifismo capace di dare pratica applicazione ai suoi bei proclami (e destinato a fallire miseramente), The Dark Tide smentisce sè stesso e perfino la sua autrice con un colpo di scena talmente insolito da sembrare fittizio: sarà proprio una "fanmail" in piena regola, scritta dal futuro marito di Vera dopo aver letto il romanzo, a permettere ai due di conoscersi e di sposarsi. Insomma, la vita chiama la vita e la letteratura non è da meno: anche contro le nostre stesse convinzioni.
Scrivere un commento in italiano ad un libro mai tradotto nella nostra lingua e andato persino fuori stampa in UK all'inizio non mi sembrava una grande idea, ma in fondo ogni mezzo per fare conoscere Vera Brittain nel nostro paese (nel Regno Unito è più che conosciuta per Testament of Youth, infatti non si spiega come tutto il resto della sua produzione sia andato quasi del tutto nel dimenticatorio) è lecito e merita lo sforzo.
Per me, Vera è sempre stata un mistero straordinario e inafferabile: una ragazza piena di sogni, infranti dalla guerra e dal dolore, che persi tutti quelli che davano colore e significato alla sua esistenza non ha mai smesso di lottare per andare avanti, risalire, continuare a vivere anche laddove il futuro sembrava ormai avvizzito, con la memoria come unica compagna e consolatrice possibile. Eppure, la vita per Vera non è finita: periti insieme al mondo di ieri, gli uomini della sua vita (il fidanzato, gli amici, il fratello) sono rimasti per sempre giovani nei suoi ricordi e presenti nel lungo impegno dell'autrice a sostegno di un pacifismo senza quartiere, ma il destino le ha egualmente donato una nuova anima gemella, nella forma di un'amica "geniale" e ambiziosa tanto quanto lei, un nuovo amore, due figli e soprattutto la carriera letteraria che aveva sempre desiderato. Sarà stato abbastanza? Chi lo sa.
Collocato nell'eccezionalità della vicenda personale di Vera, The Dark Tide è un libro reso curioso e interessante dalla sua valenza autobiografica e dagli eventi seguiti alla sua pubblicazione più che dal valore dell'opera in sè stessa: un romanzo d'esordio che si cala a pennello agli albori dei famigerati roaring twenties, nelle deliziose descrizioni di tessuti, abiti e cappellini ma anche di luoghi e ambienti sociali dell'epoca(si trovano perfino delle descrizioni puntuali e sentite di città e paesaggi della nostra Italia, paese dove morì l'adorato fratello Edward e che lei in seguito scelse di visitare e amare), in cui la Brittain si propone di inquadrare la sua vita universitaria subito dopo la fine della Guerra e del servizio prestato come infermiera volontaria che l'aveva condotta fino al fronte; si racconta del suo difficile ritorno alla normalità, dell'incapacità di essere compresa e dell'incontro con quella che più avanti avrebbe definito il suo "other self", Winifred Holtby, vera protagonista del romanzo, usando le identità fittizie della fiera Virginia e dell'ingenua Daphne ma senza sforzarsi più di tanto nello sfumare riferimenti autobiografici scomodi o sgradevoli per la diretta interessata.
Un'amicizia femminile che si mescola a colpi bassi e invidie adolescenziali (la Holtby doveva davvero tenere molto alla Brittain, considerato il modo in cui questa si è servita del romanzo per togliersi parecchi sassolini dalla scarpa degli anni di Oxford, accanendosi anche con una certa crudeltà sulle sfighe del personaggio di Daphne/Winifred), ma che al momento giusto ritrova la solidità di un legame più forte di qualsiasi screzio e rivalità: il tutto raccontato con una franchezza e un'attenzione agli spigolosi legami fra donne che precede di quasi un secolo le amiche geniali di Elena Ferrante e non è cosa da poco.
Un po' sbilanciato e imperfetto nella retorica di un finale che consacra il sacrificio della propria felicità e ambizione alla causa di un pacifismo capace di dare pratica applicazione ai suoi bei proclami (e destinato a fallire miseramente), The Dark Tide smentisce sè stesso e perfino la sua autrice con un colpo di scena talmente insolito da sembrare fittizio: sarà proprio una "fanmail" in piena regola, scritta dal futuro marito di Vera dopo aver letto il romanzo, a permettere ai due di conoscersi e di sposarsi. Insomma, la vita chiama la vita e la letteratura non è da meno: anche contro le nostre stesse convinzioni.
May 10, 2012
There is a pivotal scene in The Dark Tide in which Daphne, our happy-go-lucky heroine, gets her rival, the former V.A.D. Virginia, to speak on the topic of travel versus university as a means to an education. Predictably, Virginia, whose fiancé, brother, and friends all died in the war, rails angrily about how useless university life is compared to war work and nursing; Daphne humiliates her and puts her down by making light of the whole thing and making the war look passé.
It's a perfectly good scene, except that having just read Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain's 1933 memoir of her life up to 1925, I had already read the real version (complete with Winifred Holtby's As You Like It quote, summing up her argument against travel). I felt I needed to read The Dark Tide, Brittain's first novel, because she was trying to get it published in Testament of Youth, but really it's kind of a melodramatic unexceptional little book. None of the characters were particularly likeable (except for Patricia O'Neill, the the history adviser, and Mr. Stephanoff, their tutor, and I did like the shades of Hope Milroy in Virginia's decision to pursue nursing as a career instead of academia), and Brittain's writing is about a thousand times better when she writes some of the same events and the same opinions ten years later. I'm glad I investigated, but it's not really worth bothering.
It's a perfectly good scene, except that having just read Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain's 1933 memoir of her life up to 1925, I had already read the real version (complete with Winifred Holtby's As You Like It quote, summing up her argument against travel). I felt I needed to read The Dark Tide, Brittain's first novel, because she was trying to get it published in Testament of Youth, but really it's kind of a melodramatic unexceptional little book. None of the characters were particularly likeable (except for Patricia O'Neill, the the history adviser, and Mr. Stephanoff, their tutor, and I did like the shades of Hope Milroy in Virginia's decision to pursue nursing as a career instead of academia), and Brittain's writing is about a thousand times better when she writes some of the same events and the same opinions ten years later. I'm glad I investigated, but it's not really worth bothering.
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June 23, 2020
This book is embarrassingly emotional and personal, which is why I read it. As a novel it deserves only three stars, if that, but as an autobiographical study of Vera Brittain it is brilliant, well worth five stars. I'm astounded that a book so revealing and with characters so obviously based on real people was able to be published; the industry was very different a century ago. And I understand why two of Brittain's fellow students ceremoniously burned their copy, and one of Brittain's tutors shook their hands on finding that out. But I'm very glad to have read it. As a description of female student life at Oxford a century ago it is fascinating.
September 18, 2016
It isn't great literature, but I hugely enjoyed it. So wonderfully of its time (set in a women's Oxford college in the early 1920s). It's melodramatic at times, & has some rather unlikely plot twists, but it's definitely 'a good read'.
June 29, 2020
Daphne and Virginia are students at Oxford resuming their studies after having done war work in WW1. Most of the novel is told from Daphne's point of view, and boy does she have a rough ride. She has plenty of money for clothes but little sense of style (at one point the author describes her outfit of orange, brown and green as giving 'the impression of a rather uncontrolled kitchen garden'. Ouch!). She is untidy, socially gauche and suffers embarrassing mishaps. Men are not attracted to her and she is not particularly sought out by the female students. Although she is intelligent, she has not kept up her studies and soon struggles academically, achieving only a third. She is thrilled when a charismatic lecturer proposes to her, unaware that he is on the rebound from having been refused by Virginia only hours beforehand.
And who can blame him from preferring Virginia? She is petite, pretty, well-dressed, socially in demand and surrounded by suitors. She is academically brilliant, has already written a book and achieves a first. No wonder Daphne feels inferior to her.
The stark contrast and the animosity between the two women makes for uneasy reading as poor Daphne is worsted and humiliated again and again, the pattern only increasing as her new husband comes to regret his hasty action in marrying her, and subjects her to increasing criticism and hostility. However we are given a respite when the two women accidentally meet up again and away from the competitive atmosphere of university, strike up a deep and compassionate friendship. The writing here is much gentler and more sensitive. Through tragic circumstances, Daphne acquires a new poise and wisdom, and the hope of a future as a writer and the novel ends on a more optimistic note.
The character of Daphne was inspired (if you can call it that) by Vera's close friend Winifred Holtby, However, Vera did say Daphne grew less like Winifred as she worked on her. I think it says a lot for Holtby that she apparently took the portrayal with good humour. The author's immaturity shows in this, an early work, but the book is always readable and once I'd started I found it hard to put down.
And who can blame him from preferring Virginia? She is petite, pretty, well-dressed, socially in demand and surrounded by suitors. She is academically brilliant, has already written a book and achieves a first. No wonder Daphne feels inferior to her.
The stark contrast and the animosity between the two women makes for uneasy reading as poor Daphne is worsted and humiliated again and again, the pattern only increasing as her new husband comes to regret his hasty action in marrying her, and subjects her to increasing criticism and hostility. However we are given a respite when the two women accidentally meet up again and away from the competitive atmosphere of university, strike up a deep and compassionate friendship. The writing here is much gentler and more sensitive. Through tragic circumstances, Daphne acquires a new poise and wisdom, and the hope of a future as a writer and the novel ends on a more optimistic note.
The character of Daphne was inspired (if you can call it that) by Vera's close friend Winifred Holtby, However, Vera did say Daphne grew less like Winifred as she worked on her. I think it says a lot for Holtby that she apparently took the portrayal with good humour. The author's immaturity shows in this, an early work, but the book is always readable and once I'd started I found it hard to put down.
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September 4, 2024Excellent book that depicts de post-war academic wordl. Like all Brittain's, deeply autobiographic.
I am very interested in buying its KINDLE versión. Where I could do it?
I am very interested in buying its KINDLE versión. Where I could do it?
December 29, 2010
I didn't know that Vera Brittain wrote any novels until I found this audio book at the library. It's her first novel, and although it cops a bit of criticism on That Other Book Review site, I thought it was a jolly good debut novel and more sophisticated than some other reviewers give credit for. See what you think, here's my review:
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January 24, 2024
COMPLETED JANUARY2019.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
— While it's clear in places the book is a first novel, I DON'T CARE. I absolutely loved it. The plot was great, the characters fully fleshed and interesting, the personality ALIVE. From the ironic opening line to the wonderful moment in the book's final passage, this book blew me away. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a novel about female friendship.
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— While it's clear in places the book is a first novel, I DON'T CARE. I absolutely loved it. The plot was great, the characters fully fleshed and interesting, the personality ALIVE. From the ironic opening line to the wonderful moment in the book's final passage, this book blew me away. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a novel about female friendship.
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May 12, 2018I haven't yet read TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, but I watched the TV and film adaptations, so I knew right away that the "protagonist" of THE DARK TIDE was inspired by Brittain's friend, Winifred Holtby. NOT a flattering characterization, and the book was rife with melodrama and speechifying. Still, I found it a worthwhile read, and I particularly treasured every scene in Oxford. As a "detox," I plan to read a Holtby novel next -- SOUTH RIDING is one of my all-time favorites and I do think it's time to read another by her.
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