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‘The big romance’: Winifred Holtby and the fictionalisation of women's cinemagoing in interwar Yorkshire

Lisa Smithstead

Women's History Review, Volume: 22, Issue: 5, Pages: 759 - 776

Swansea University Author: Lisa Smithstead

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/09612025.2013.769384

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This article explores fictive accounts of women's cinemagoing in Winifred Holtby's middlebrow interwar literature. The article looks at the ways in which Holtby's writing engaged with notions of female self-fashioning in relation to screen fictions through her novels The Crowded Stree...

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Published in: Women's History Review
ISSN: 0961-2025 1747-583X
Published: Informa UK Limited 2013
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