“Oh what a head-cracking week ... Never did I imagine that the Testament would inspire such praise at such length, or provoke - in smaller doses - so much abuse.”
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Vera Brittain
Vera Mary Brittain 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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culture · English nurse and writer (1893–1970) · nurse · writer · poet · novelist · women's rights activist · pacifist · journalist · peace activist · suffragist · also Vera Brittain, Vera Mary Brittain, Vera (Mary) Brittain, Brittain
Born 29 December 1893 · Died 29 March 1970 · Q450802
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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2024· 1 entry
Moviefone: A Woman in Love and War: Vera Brittain
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2015· 1 entry
The Washington Post: ‘Testament of Youth’ captures Vera Brittain’s innocence and steely will
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2008· 1 entry
To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Armistice
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1998· 1 entry
Brittain's First World War letters were edited by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge and published under the title Letters from a Lost Generation
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1996· 1 entry
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century documentary series aired on the U
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1979· 1 entry
In the grave of her husband Sir George Catlin in the churchyard of St James the Great, at Old Milverton in Warwickshire
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1971· 1 entry
To McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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1970· 2 entries
Died 1970-03-29.
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“I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.”
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1945· 1 entry
The Nazis' Black Book of nearly 3,000 people to be immediately arrested in Britain after a German invasion was shown to include her name
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1935· 1 entry
Gave a toast to the Rationalist Press Association celebrating the "gradual weakening of the power of superstition"
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1933· 1 entry
Published the work for which she became famous, Testament of Youth, followed in 1940 by Testament of Friendship— her tribute to and biography of Winifred Holtby —and Testament of Experience (1957), the continuation o
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1925· 1 entry
Brittain married George Catlin, a political scientist (1896–1979)
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1919· 1 entry
To read history, Brittain found it difficult as "a war survivor" to adjust to life in postwar society
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1916· 1 entry
“If the war spares me, it will be my one aim to immortalise in a book the story of us four.”
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1914· 2 entries
And 1915, and exploring her relationships with Roland, Edward, her brother's (fictional) gay lover Bobbie Jones, and the impact the war had on them
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To read English Literature, taught by Hilda Lorimer and others
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1905· 1 entry
Moved again, to the spa town of Buxton in Derbyshire
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1893· 1 entry
Born 1893-12-29.
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