Author Vera Brittain as a nurse in WW I. Her 'Verses of A VAD' have
Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 - 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist, and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounted her experiences during the First World War and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.
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Vera Brittain was a convinced pacifist, a prolific speaker, lecturer, journalist and writer, she devoted much of her energy to the causes of peace and feminism. She wrote 29 books in all, novels, poetry, biography and autobiography, but it was TESTAMENT OF YOUTH which established her reputation and made her one of the best-loved writers of her.
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Vera Brittain (1893-1970) served as a nurse in the British armed forces in World War I and afterward devoted herself to the causes of peace and feminism. She wrote twenty-nine books, of which Testament of Youth is the best-known. Bibliographic information. Title: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
Vera Mary Brittain (1893 1970) was a British writer, feminist and
Vera Brittain (December 29, 1893- March 29, 1970) was a British memoirist, poet, essayist, and novelist whose work and life were forever marked by the losses she endured as a result of World War I. She's best remembered for her classic memoir, Testament of Youth (1933). As a young wartime nurse, she tended to wounded soldiers in several countries.
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The reputation of Vera Mary Brittain, named a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1946, centers on her achievements as an influential British feminist and pacifist and on her famous memoir of World War I, Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925. That work has never been out of print since first published in 1933, and its influence has been strengthened.
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Sat 23 Mar 2013 20.05 EDT I n 1916, Vera Brittain was 22 years old. Her fiance, Roland Leighton, had been killed on the western front the previous Christmas. Her beloved brother, Edward, had.
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Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 - 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist [1] and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounted her experiences during the First World War and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism. Life and work
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Vera Brittain in 1956. Photograph: Central Press. The process of adapting this long book for the cinema might well have left only the central love story intact.
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Vera Mary Brittain was a British writer and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.
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Vera Brittain (1893-1970) Vera Mary Brittain was born 29th December 1893 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, the elder of two children of Thomas Arthur Brittain, a paper manufacturer, and his wife Edith, née Bervon. In 1895 the family moved to the manufacturing town of Macclesfield, Cheshire, where Edward Brittain was born at the end of.
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Vera Mary Brittain (1893 - 1970) was an English poet, feminist, pacifist, and English Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. Her novel, Testament of Youth (1933) is considered a stand-out autobiography of the 20th century for its vivid account of her traumatic experiences during World War I and gradual embrace of pacifism.
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Vera Mary Brittain was a British writer and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism. Her daughter is Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, who is a British politician and academic who represents the Liberal Democrats.
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Short Bio Vera Brittain (1893-1970) Vera Brittain was an English writer, feminist and pacifist, who wrote the best selling " Testament of Youth " an account of her traumatic experiences during the First World War. Vera Brittain was born 29 December 1893 in Newcastle to a wealthy family who owned paper mills. After studying at a boarding.
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Vera Mary Brittain was a British writer and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.
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Vera Brittain has 57 books on Goodreads with 48092 ratings. Vera Brittain's most popular book is Testament of Youth.
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Testament of Youth. Vera Brittain. Seaview Books, 1980 - Authors, English - 661 pages. Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittains elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the.