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About The Crowded Street
“But the thing that matters is to take your life into you own hands and live it, accepting responsibility for failure or success. The really fatal thing is to let other people make your choices for you.”
The Crowded Street is a novel by English author Winifred Holtby, published in 1924. Perhaps best known for her later 1936 novel South Riding, Holtby was a vocal feminist, socialist and pacifist, lecturing for the League of Nations Union and a member of the feminist Six Point Group.
The novel follows the story of 20-year-old Muriel Hammond, residing in the restrictive Edwardian society of a Yorkshire village. Failing to meet society’s expectations that she should find a suitable husband, the onset of WWI brings with it both challenges and liberating new opportunities.
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