Three Revellers Have a Night Out

3. Councillor Huggins Vindicates Morality

4. Midge Decides to go Home

5. The Hollies go Picnicking

6. Mrs. Beddows Sends Sarah About Her Business

Epilogue at a Silver Jubilee

A Note on the Author

Winifred Holtby had a short life and writing career, sadly passing away one year before the publication of South Riding in 1935 at the age of 37. During her life, she worked as a journalist writing for numerous newspapers and magazines, and wrote three other successful novels Anderby Wold (1923), The Crowded Street (1924) and The Land of Green Ginger (1927), as well as a collection of short stories, Truth is Not Sober. Having lived through the horror of the First World War, Winifred, still only in her late twenties, joined the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps in 1918 and moved to France. She returned to England in 1919 to attend Somerville College, where she met and became good friends with Vera Brittain. After college, the women moved to London together to pursue writing careers. Vera wrote about their close friendship in her book Testament of Friendship (1940).

LIST OF CHARACTERS

In their order of appearance:

LOVELL BROWN, a young reporter on the Kingsport Chronicle.

SYD MAIL, his senior.

COUNCILLOR ROBERT CARNE of Maythorpe Hall, a sporting farmer.

ALDERMAN FARROW, a memory.

ALDERMAN ANTHONY SNAITH, a rich business man.

A FAT REPORTER, from the Yorkshire Record.

ALDERMAN MRS. BEDDOWS, née Emma Tuke.

COUNCILLOR SAXON, a local celebrity.

ALDERMAN GENERAL THE HONOURABLE SIR RONALD TARKINGTON, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., of Lissell Grange, Chairman of the South Riding County Council.

LEET OF KYLE HILLOCK, a farmer.

COUNCILLOR CAPTAIN GRYSON, a retired regular army officer.

LORD KNARESBOROUGH, a pre-war beau of Muriel Carne.

COUNCILLOR PEACOCK, member for Cold Harbour Division.

COUNCILLOR (afterwards Alderman) ASTELL, a Socialist.

MISS L. P. HOLMES, retiring Head Mistress of Kiplington High School for Girls.

MISS SARAH BURTON, M.A. (Leeds), B.Litt. (Oxon), the new Head Mistress.

MIDGE CARNE, Carne’s fourteen-year-old daughter.

ELSIE, Carne’s maid.

APPLETON, labourer on Carne’s farm.

TOPPER BEACHALL, labourer on roads at Maythorpe.

Miss MALT, once governess to Midge.

WILLIAM CARNE, Robert’s younger brother, architect at Harrogate.

BARON SEDGMIRE, Carne’s father-in-law.

CASTLE, Carne’s foreman.

MRS. CASTLE, his wife.

DOLLY CASTLE, his daughter.

MURIEL CARNE, née Sedgmire, Carne’s wife, in a mental home.

GEORGE HICKS, Carne’s groom.

ELI DICKSON, a dairy-farmer, tenant of Carne.

MR. BANNER, killed in the hunting field.

POLLY, Mr. Dickson’s pony.

MR. AND MRS. TADMAN, grocers of Kiplington.

COUNCILLOR TUBBS, member of the County Council.

MISS TORRENCE }

MISS SLAKER } rejected candidates for head mistress-ship.

MISS HAMMOND }

MISS DRY }

THE REV. MILWARD PECKOVER, Rector of Kiplington.

CHLOE BEDDOWS, Ph.D., daughter of Mrs. Beddows, Lecturer in English at the Sorbonne.

DR. DALE, D.D., Congregationalist minister at Kiplington.

COLONEL COLLIER, Chairman of Governors of the High School.

MR, DREW, estate agent, Governor of the High School.

BURTON, blacksmith at Lipton Hunter }

MRS. BURTON, a midwife—married to Burton. } parents of Miss Sarah Burton

MR. BRIGOS, a lawyer, Governor of the High School.

CISSIE TADMAN, daughter of the Tadmans, pupil at the High School.

MR. FRETTON, Manager of Midland Bank, Kiplington.

WENDY BEDDOWS, granddaughter of Alderman Mrs. Beddows.

JIM BEDDOWS, auctioneer, Mrs. Beddows’ husband.

MR. FRED MITCHELL, insurance agent.

NANCY MITCHELL, his wife.

PEGGY MITCHELL, his baby daughter.

BARNABAS HOLLY, builder’s labourer.

ANNIE HOLLY, his wife.

BERT HOLLY, his son, aged 16.

LYDIA HOLLY, his daughter, aged 14.

DAISY HOLLY, his daughter, aged 12.

ALICE HOLLY, his daughter, aged 8.

GERTIE HOLLY, his daughter, aged 7.

KITTY HOLLY, his daughter, aged 4.

LEN HOLLY, his son, aged 10 months.

MADAME HUBBARD, a draper’s wife, runs dancing classes.

MR.