Marie Leighton

Standard Name: Leighton, Marie

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
126-7, 135, 296
Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell.
128
Publishing Helen Mathers
HM joined forces with Eliza Lynn Linton , Marie Leighton , Annie S. Swan , Evelyn Sharp , and Douglas B. Sladen to contribute to The Idler's Club an essay entitled Is Society a Pleasure or a Bore?
Mathers, Helen et al. “Is Society a Pleasure or a Bore?”. The Idlers’ Club, Vol.
9
, No. 6, pp. 907-14.
912-13
Family and Intimate relationships Vera Brittain
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.
50-4

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Texts

Mathers, Helen et al. “Is Society a Pleasure or a Bore?”. The Idlers’ Club, Vol.
9
, No. 6, pp. 907-14.