Tag: Winifred Holtby

• The Land of Green Ginger – Winifred Holtby

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  November 6, 2023

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  Book reviews

  Winifred Holtby, best known for her posthumous novel ‘South Riding’, published ‘The Land of Green Ginger’ in 1927. The title is the name of a street which the heroine, Joanna, encounters as a child. In the novel, it is located in the town of Kingsport; in reality, it exists in Hull. Joanna, who was born…