Roland Leighton was a schoolfriend of VB
's brother, Edward, and son of Robert Leighton
and Marie Connor Leighton
, both popular writers. Like Edward, he had left Oxford in order to fight in the war.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
Mathers, Helen, Eliza Lynn Linton, Marie Leighton, Annie S. Swan, Evelyn Sharp, and Douglas B. Sladen. “Is Society a Pleasure or a Bore?”. The Idlers’ Club, No. 6, pp. 907 -14.
912-13
Textual Production
Vera Brittain
Marie Leighton
supplied a foreword. The collection was reprinted (in part) in 1934 as Poems of the War and After.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
126-7, 135, 296
Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996.