text: 1950: The autobiographical novel A Voice Through a Cloud by Denton Welch concerns the author's near-fatal bike accident and its aftermath, which occurred on a Whitsun holiday.
  1957: Enid Blyton's Five Go to Billycock Hill is a novel in the Famous Five series of children's books set during a camping holiday at Whitsun.
  1961: Sylvia Plath wrote a poem called "Whitsun", published posthumously in 1971.
  1964: The Whitsun Weddings is a poem and the title of a collection by Philip Larkin.
  1965: "Whitsunday in Kirchstetten" is a poem by W. H. Auden, from his collection About the House.
  1973: Thomas Pynchon refers to Whitsun in his novel Gravity's Rainbow (section 2, 20).
  2010: In Washington: A Life, a 2010 biography by Ron Chernow, George Washington is said to have included a drinking allowance in an employment contract with one of his gardeners, allowing "two dollars at Whitsuntide to be drunk four days and four nights" (p. 135).
  2011: Several episodes in author Jeff Wheeler's Muirwood Trilogy revolve around Whitsunday and its significance and impact on Muirwood's inhabitants.
  2022: Whitsun is mentioned in Gillian McAllister's "Wrong Place Wrong Time"
  In film
  1942: The Second World War film Went the Day Well? depicts the fictional takeover of an English village by German soldiers over Whitsun weekend.
  1995: P.R.O.B.E: The Devil of Winterborne takes place over the Whitsun holiday.