Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin

During her first year back at Oxford, WH met Vera Brittain , who was also returning to complete her degree. After a difficult beginning (they disliked each other at first sight), they became lifelong...

VB and George Catlin , political scientist and Labour intellectual, were married in a fashionable white wedding at St James's, Spanish Place, London.

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...

Her husband outlived her by nine years.

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.

George Catlin later described the book as pretty grossly libellous of my father.

VB went with her husband to live in Ithaca, New York, while he taught at Cornell .

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.

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.

VB , George Catlin , and Winifred Holtby moved to 19 Glebe Place, Chelsea, in preparation for the birth of Brittain's second child.

VB once again draws heavily on her own experience. Ruth Alleyndene is based on herself and some critics believe that Ruth's husband Denis Rutherston is based on George Catlin (though Leonardi maintains that neither VB

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 .

VB joined her husband in Montreal while he taught at McGill University .

VB and George Catlin left London for Durban, South Africa, where Brittain was to speak at the Natal University Education Conference .