Vera Brittain
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Standard Name: Brittain, Vera
Birth Name: Vera Mary Brittain
From her university days before the First World War, 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.
was determined to be a writer. Her career as a novelist never fulfilled her own expectations; it was not until the publication of Timeline
Texts
Brittain, Vera. "One of These Little Ones. . .": A Plea to Parents and Others for Europe’s Children. Andrew Dakers, 1943.
Catlin, Sir George Edward Gordon et al. Above All Nations. V. Gollancz, 1945.
Brittain, Vera. Account Rendered. Macmillan, 1945.
Brittain, Vera. Born 1925. Macmillan, 1948.
Brittain, Vera. Chronicle of Friendship. Editor Bishop, Alan, Gollancz, 1986.
Brittain, Vera. England’s Hour. Macmillan, 1941.
Holtby, Winifred. “Foreword”. Pavements at Anderby, edited by Hilda Stewart Reid and Vera Brittain, Collins, 1937, pp. 9-11.
Brittain, Vera. Halcyon. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1929.
Brittain, Vera. Honourable Estate. Gollancz, 1936.
Brittain, Vera. Humiliation with Honour. Andrew Dakers, 1942.
Eden-Green, Winifred, and Vera Brittain. “Introduction”. Testament of a Peace-Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain, edited by Winifred Eden-Green et al., Virago, 1988.
Brittain, Vera. Lady into Woman. Andrew Dakers, 1953.
Brittain, Vera. Not Without Honour. Grant Richards, 1924.
Holtby, Winifred. Pavements at Anderby. Editors Reid, Hilda Stewart and Vera Brittain, Collins, 1937.
Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin, 1963.
Brittain, Vera. Radclyffe Hall. Femina, 1968.
Brittain, Vera. Search After Sunrise. Macmillan, 1951.
Brittain, Vera. Seed of Chaos. The Bombing Restriction Committee, 1944.
Holtby, Winifred et al. Take Back Your Freedom. Editor Ginsbury, Norman, Jonathan Cape, 1939.
Brittain, Vera, and Winifred Holtby. Testament of a Generation. Editors Berry, Paul and Alan Bishop, Virago, 1985.
Brittain, Vera. Testament of a Peace-Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain. Editors Eden-Green, Winifred and Alan Eden-Green, Virago, 1988.
Brittain, Vera. Testament of Experience. Gollancz, 1957.
Brittain, Vera. Testament of Friendship. Macmillan, 1940.
Brittain, Vera, and Rosalind Delmar. Testament of Friendship. Virago, 1980.
Brittain, Vera. Testament of Youth. Gollancz, 1933.