Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) is remembered today mainly as the author of South Riding. But South Riding was only the last of Winifred's six published novels and many other publications of poems, pamphlets, short stories, and newspaper articles and reviews which revealed her as an outstanding advocate of feminism, socialism, and pacifism and a champion of other progressive and humanitarian causes.

This collection of her short stories were written between 1923 and 1933 and range over all her interests and from her native Yorkshire to the wider world.