
South Riding
Winifred Holtby was born on 23rd June 1898 to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston in Yorkshire.
A governess provided her early education and then she went to Queen Margaret''s School in Scarborough. After passing the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford in 1917, she decided to join the Women''s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in early 1918. However soon after her arrival in ...
Winifred Holtby was born on 23rd June 1898 to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston in Yorkshire.
A governess provided her early education and then she went to Queen Margaret''s School in Scarborough. After passing the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford in 1917, she decided to join the Women''s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in early 1918. However soon after her arrival in ...