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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
and George Catlin
, political scientist and Labour
intellectual, were married in a fashionable white wedding at St James's, Spanish Place, London. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 208 Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996. 190 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | Catlin
(not to be confused with the nineteenth-century US painter George Catlin) was the only child of a Congregational minister and his pro-suffragette wife, whose feminist beliefs combined with her husband's growing hostility eventually ended... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | Her husband
outlived her by nine years. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bentley | PB
stayed with Vera Brittain
and Winifred Holtby
at the house in Glebe Place in Chelsea where they and Brittain's husband, George Catlin
, all lived. Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz, 1962. 174 Brittain, Vera. Chronicle of Friendship. Editor Bishop, Alan, Gollancz, 1986. 38, 56 |
Literary responses | Vera Brittain | George Catlin
later described the book as pretty grossly libellous of my father. qtd. in Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 348 |
Residence | Vera Brittain | |
Residence | Vera Brittain | Frustrated by the lack of American interest in her journalism and lectures, VB
decided to return to London to pursue her career, leaving her husband
in the USA. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 217-9 |
Residence | Vera Brittain | VB
, George Catlin
, and Winifred Holtby
moved to a larger flat at 6 Nevern Place, London, in order to have room for VB
's first child. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 225 |
Residence | Vera Brittain | VB
, George Catlin
, and Winifred Holtby
moved to 19 Glebe Place, Chelsea, in preparation for the birth of Brittain's second child. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 242 |
Textual Features | Vera Brittain | |
Textual Production | Vera Brittain | Above All Nations was published, an anthology of acts of kindness and compassion between enemies in wartime, compiled by George Catlin
, VB
, and Sheila Hodges
of Victor Gollancz
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 443-4 |
Travel | Vera Brittain | VB
joined her husband
in Montreal while he taught at McGill University
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 495-6 |
Travel | Vera Brittain | VB
and George Catlin
left London for Durban, South Africa, where Brittain was to speak at the Natal University Education Conference
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 497 |
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