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Vera Brittain
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Standard Name: Brittain, Vera
Birth Name: Vera Mary Brittain
From her university days before the First World War, VB
was determined to be a writer. Her career as a novelist never fulfilled her own expectations; it was not until the publication of Testament of Youth, the first of her volumes combining autobiography with social and cultural history, that she achieved significant success. She also wrote both poetry and pamphlets. Much of her oeuvre is politically engaged, from her feminist journalism and social criticism of the 1920s to her pacifist writings of World War II.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Storm Jameson | The appearance of Europe to Let struck a blow at SJ
's in any case faltering friendship with Vera Brittain
. They quarrelled over the character Olga (Johnson) Stehlík in The Hour of Prague... |
| Literary responses | Storm Jameson | This text delivered a final blow to SJ
's long and close friendship with Vera Brittain
(who had dedicated her political England's Hour to Jameson only that February). Not only did Brittain remain a staunch... |
| Textual Features | Storm Jameson | Throughout this work SJ
glosses over such events as marriage, divorce, and illness in favour of examining her psychology and behaviour, her struggle to balance motherhood and a public career, the value of creative writing... |
| Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | Among those drafted to form the Mandate's Honorary Council in Britain were prominent politicians, clergy, feminists, and writers such as Margaret Ashton
, Margaret Bondfield
, Vera Brittain
, Arthur Henderson
, Laurence Housman
,... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kathleen E. Innes | The pamphlet maintains that those who do not actually engage in the battle are perhaps in a position to make a saner judgment upon it as a whole than those who do. Innes, Kathleen E. Women and War. Friends’ Peace Committee, 1934. 2 Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 210 |
| Travel | Kathleen E. Innes | The tours were designed to acquaint League of Nations Union speakers with the workings of the League. Social and cultural events and tours of Geneva and environs were also arranged. Vera Brittain
, a LNU... |
| Textual Production | Winifred Holtby | WH
's anti-Fascistplay, Take Back Your Freedom, was posthumously published with an introduction by Vera Brittain
and Tyrone Guthrie
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Education | Winifred Holtby | During both halves of her time at Oxford she dashed around on a very rusty cycle, cramming myriad activities into her schedule: lectures, tea parties, concerts, lacrosse matches, and meetings. I was born with a... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Holtby | During her first year back at Oxford, WH
met Vera Brittain
, who was also returning to complete her degree. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 140 |
| politics | Winifred Holtby | She and Vera Brittain
regularly attended the League of Nations Assembly
in Geneva. In 1924 they went on a lecture tour of Central Europe for the Union. Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999. 112-13 Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 219 |
| politics | Winifred Holtby | WH
credited Vera Brittain
with making her a feminist during their years at Oxford. Before then, Winifred claimed that her mother's strong presence within her family had left her unaware that women suffered social and... |
| Friends, Associates | Winifred Holtby | Through her work with the Six Point Group
and Time and Tide, WH
met the founder of both, Margaret Haig, Lady Rhondda
. Their professional relationship grew into a friendship, and WH
dedicated her... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Holtby | Vera Brittain
, who had believed and encouraged others to believe that WH
was in love with Harry Pearson
, got another male friend to propose to Holtby on her deathbed, so that she might... |
| Other Life Event | Winifred Holtby | In January 1940Vera Brittain
published Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby, an account of their friendship which continued unbroken and unspoilt for sixteen incomparable years. Brittain, Vera, and Rosalind Delmar. Testament of Friendship. Virago, 1980. 2 Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 337 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Winifred Holtby |
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