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Winifred Holtby
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“Mr Anthony: A Young Man about ... Anthony: It might be said, of course, that in England itself the has hardly even had a past. We are, as our diplomatic representatives continually explain to an incredulous continent, a people averse to generalization. We love the concrete, the improvised, and the particular, whereas the sermon deals with the abstract, the predetermined, and the general. Englishmen are not on the whole interested in ideas. We prefer to judge by the event rather the principle. We would sooner watch the bodies of men contesting for a than their minds wrestling with a theory.”
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women, they told themselves, had been excluded from the highly-skilled and better-paid industrial posts for two or more generations. They had been told that certain processes were beyond their power. It was a lie.”
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Carnes, she knew, were not Poor People. Poor people lived in s; the Carnes lived in a , which was the biggest house for miles round, with a and a breakfast-room and three sets of staircases and a top floor nobody ever used now, and a nearly half a mile long.”
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (605 pages; 1st edition of novel published in 1936 by Collins)
“Few races depend upon the speed at which Islanders themselves can run, like ours on Tristan, but upon horses, s, motor-cars, motor-cycles, or aeroplanes. Horses are the most popular. If an Islander says he is "keen on racing," he means he buys an early evening edition of his daily paper at noon, in order to learn which horse an unknown gentleman or lady writing under the sobriquet of the "General," or the "Major," thinks it most likely to run the fastest in a horse-race at half-past three. Some Islanders even go to watch the horses run, but most do not, because to go requires time and money, and Islanders prefer to spend their time reading prophecies about horses in the paper, and their money on something called the .”
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source