Inez Holden

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. [Jenny Hartley, "Millions Like Us: British Women's Fiction of the Second World War" (1997), p.8.] She was at the time working in an aircraft factory. [Hartley p.251 has a brief biography"] She was an associate and briefly a lover of George Orwell. [ 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. ]

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)

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