Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Oakley | AO
was heavily influenced by her father, Richard Morris Titmuss
, who, without a university education himself, became first an insurance clerk, and then a noted academic and social critic, one of the founders of... |
Literary responses | Mary Stott | For her obituary, The Guardian first called her legendary and then printed recollections by seven people who had known her well: editors Peter Preston
, Linda Christmas
, Suzanne Lowry
, and Libby Brooks
... |
politics | Mary Stott | She scorned much of the debate as waffle but admired the clear, warm voice and the lucid, rational analysis offered by Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
). Sitting with other, mostly young women in... |
Publishing | Vera Brittain | In 2005 this was reprinted with VB
's Seed of Chaos, 1944, as a single volume under the title One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World War, with a foreword by Brittain's... |
Textual Production | Mary Stott | Growing up the daughter of journalist parents, Mary Waddington (later MS
) was a journalist in her play as a small child. She told her dolls, I have some copy to write now. qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |