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A fifth printing of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in 1941. The book was first published in 1934, and was reprinted in 1935, 1936, 1939 and this printing in 1941. ***Near fine in beige cloth-covered boards with blue titles to the spine and front board. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. No tears to the cloth. Page block edges clean. The spine remains unfaded, having been protected by the dustwrapper. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine, with no previous ownership inscriptions. Pages clean with no marks or annotations. Printed on good quality paper - just lightly tanned with age. No creases or tears. Light offsetting to the endpapers. ***In a very good original printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 5s net plus 'New Edition - sixth thousand' on the front flap. The dustwrapper is largely complete, with some small loss at the top of the spine, not affecting the lettering, and a very small chip at the bottom edge of the back panel. The dustwrapper is otherwise complete, with the edges just slightly rubbed and creased. The spine of the dustwrapper is slightly darkened, and just very slightly faded. No other chips, creases or tears. Dustwrapper bright. ***202mm x 135mm. 213 pages including Appendices, a Bibliography and detailed Index at the back of the book. ***'Winifred Holtby (23 Jun 1898 - 29 Sep 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel "South Riding", which was posthumously published in 1936. She chose to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in early 1918 but soon after she arrived in France, the First World War came to an end and she returned home. In 1919, she returned to study at the University of Oxford where she met Vera Brittain, a fellow student and later the author of Testament of Youth, with whom she maintained a lifelong friendship. Other literary contemporaries at Somerville College included Hilda Reid, Margaret Kennedy and Sylvia Thompson. After graduating from Oxford, in 1921, Winifred and Vera moved to London, hoping to establish themselves as writers (the blue plaque at No. 82 Doughty Street refers). Holtby was, together with Brittain, an ardent feminist, socialist and pacifist. She lectured extensively for the League of Nations Union and was a member of the feminist Six Point Group. She was active in the Independent Labour Party and was a staunch campaigner for the unionisation of black workers in South Africa, during which she had considerable contact with Leonard Woolf. (Wiki) ***'Twentieth Century society has been perturbed by what is constantly referred to as the "Woman" problem. Why is there a "Woman" problem and not a "Man" problem? Winifred Holtby provides a solution to this puzzling question by an examination of the historical background in which she points to the circumstances that have prevented consideration of women as...
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