These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.
-- Winifred Holtby
   
Winifred Holtby   Name:
Winifred Holtby
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
English
Birth:
June 23, 1898
Death:
September 29, 1935
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