Testament of Youth is an understated war film, but its restraint both buoys and hampers the result: ... writer, feminist and socialist Winifred Holtby (Alexandra Roach) is glossed over.

Holtby landed a book deal first; Brittain produced an international bestseller with Testament of Youth; and the letters, written from 1920 to 1935, show them negotiating envy and self-doubt.

As Vera Brittain’s Life of her companion Winifred Holtby is republished, Mark Bostridge examines the friendship between two timeless writers. UK News Website of the Year 2024 Search Icon ...

BFI London Film Festival: Testament of Youth. David Sexton. 15 October 2014. COMMENTS. ... Hayley Atwell as a matron at the Front; and Alexandra Roach as Winifred Holtby, ...

Testament of Youth (12A) ... There, her friend Winifred Holtby (Alexandra Roach), who would herself go on to an illustrious literary career, gently observes that she is not alone: ...

Brittain went on to publish Testament of Youth. Holtby made her name with journalism for newspapers including the Manchester Guardian and the feminist magazine Time and Tide and published 14 books ...

How the Testament of Youth author's intense correspondence with novelist Winifred Holtby nursed her back to psychological health. Jump to content.

Holtby, feminist writer and anti-war propagandist, is perhaps best known now as the subject of Vera Brittain's Testament of Friendship. The pair met while studying at Somerville College, Oxford ...

This Testament is also careful to introduce us to two people who would help shape Brittain’s life and career: future husband George Catlin and fellow Oxford student Winifred Holtby, the subject ...

The author of "South Riding" and a prominent member of London's literary scene in the 1920s and 1930s, Winifred Holtby was also a pacifist and an icon of the movement for women's rights.

Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 ... Brittain went on to publish Testament of Youth. Holtby made her name with journalism for newspapers including the Manchester Guardian and the feminist ...