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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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Roland Aubrey Leighton (27 March 1895 - 23 December 1915) was a British poet and soldier, made posthumously famous by his fiancée Vera Brittain 's memoir, Testament of Youth. [1] Life and career His parents, Robert Leighton and Marie Connor, were both writers.
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Vera Brittain and her husband, George Catlin. Vera married the academic George Catlin in 1925 but still maintained her close links with Winifred who moved into the London home set up by Vera and George becoming the third member of the household. Vera and George moved to America after George became a professor at Cornell University but Vera.
Testament of Youth review Vera Brittain's not so lovely war Film The Guardian
Vera Brittain's blazing wartime memoir, Testament of Youth, is coming to the big screen.. something that was difficult for her eventual husband George Catlin. Shirley Williams remembers how.
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When the 25-year-old Vera Brittain returned to Somerville College, Oxford, in 1919, only work held her to life. After the slaughter of her brother, fiancé and friends in the war, she had, as.
El amor entre Vera Brittain y Roland Leighton en dos libros ‘Un llanto sobre el mar’ y ‘Nada
Brittain, Vera Mary. Writer, Speaker, Pacifist, Feminist. Born 29 December 1893 in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, United Kingdom. Died 29 March 1970 in London, England. Vera Brittain's memoir Testament of Youth, and her wartime diary published in 1981 helped to validate women's experiences of the First World War, and especially the legacy of sorrow.
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Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)British writer, feminist, and a leading pacifist chronicler of her times. Born Vera Mary Brittain on December 29, 1893, in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England; died on March 29, 1970, in London; daughter of Thomas Arthur (a paper manufacturer) and Edith Mary (Bervon) Brittain; attended Somerville College, Oxford, 1914-15, 1919-21, M.A., 1925; married.
Vera Brittain Quote “I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to
Books The making of a peacenik Vera Brittain made many failed attempts at encapsulating her sentiments about the first world war, in which she lost her brother and fiancé, before publishing.
‘Testament of Youth’ captures Vera Brittain’s innocence and steely will The Washington Post
Vera Mary Brittain was born in December 1893 in Newcastle under Lyme, to Edith Mary and her husband Arthur, a paper manufacturer. The family moved to Macclesfield and in 1905 settled in Buxton, where Brittain began her education, attending the Grange School for two years before transferring to St Monica's boarding school in Kingswood, Surrey.
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Vera Brittain, the only daughter of Thomas Brittain (1864-1935), a wealthy paper manufacturer, and Edith Bervon (1868-1948), was born at Atherstone House, Newcastle-under-Lyme on 29th December 1893. Vera developed a close relationship with her brother, Edward Brittain.
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Vera Brittain lost her fiance, brother and two closest male friends in the first world war. She wrote Testament of Youth as a cry of outrage and agony, so that the futility of their deaths.
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Lieutenant Roland Leighton, 7/Worcesters, Vera Brittain's unofficial fiancé, died of wounds on the Western Front, on 23 December 1915.
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Quick Facts British Celebrities Born In December Also Known As: Vera Mary Brittain Died At Age: 76 Family: Spouse/Ex-: George Catlin (m. 1925) father: Thomas Arthur Brittain mother: Edith Bervon Brittain siblings: Edward Brittain children: John Brittain-Catlin, Shirley Williams Born Country: England Novelists Non-Fiction Writers
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Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin (26 July 1896 - 7 February 1979) [1] was an English political scientist and philosopher. A strong proponent of Anglo-American co-operation, he worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University and other universities and colleges in the United States and Canada.
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Vera Brittain. As fascinating as Brittain's story is, she must be remembered as a symbol of women's psychological sacrifice, not the aberration that much of the historical literature on shell shock would have us believe. The lack of wartime examples of women being treated for the condition speaks not to a lack of trauma, but to an inherent.
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Testament Of Youth is one of the most famous memoirs about the First World War. In 1914 Vera Brittain was just 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study for an English Literature.