Inez Holden

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Inez Holden (1904-1974) was a British writer. A Bohemian social figure and journalist, she is now remembered for her fiction of World War II, particularly Night Shift (1941).

She was one of a handful of women writers of the period to be published in Horizon, Cyril Connolly's leading literary magazine.[1] She was at the time working in an aircraft factory.[2] She was an associate and briefly a lover of George Orwell.[3]

[edit] Works

  • Sweet Charlatan (1929)
  • Born Old, Die Young (1932)
  • Death in High Society and Other Stories (1933) in Basic English
  • Friend of the Family (1933)
  • Night Shift (1941)
  • The Owner (1952)
  • The Adults (1956)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Jenny Hartley, Millions Like Us: British Women's Fiction of the Second World War (1997), p.8.
  2. ^ Hartley p.251 has a brief biography
  3. ^ Kristin Bluemel, George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London (2004) discusses Holden, Orwell, Stevie Smith and Mulk Raj Anand. Gordon Bowker, George Orwell (2003) p.277, says they met at a dinner given by H. G. Wells, in April 1941.