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Vera Brittain
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Standard Name: Brittain, Vera
Birth Name: Vera Mary Brittain
From her university days before the First World War, VB
was determined to be a writer. Her career as a novelist never fulfilled her own expectations; it was not until the publication of 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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Dorothy Whipple | DW
must have been writing and publishing stories before her first novel appeared, since she was working on High Wages when her Miss Boddy was printed in Everyman and she recorded it as her first... |
| Reception | Phyllis Bentley | A Modern Tragedy is one of PB
's better-known novels. 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. |
| Residence | Stella Benson | During this visit to London, SB
met many cultural, political, and social figures, including Wyndham Lewis
(who drew a sketch of her), David Garnett
, Kingsley Martin
, Charles Morgan
, Phyllis Bottome
,... |
| Residence | Jan Struther | She was upset when her friend Sheridan Russell
(who worked with refugees and had introduced her to Adolf Placzek
) reproached her by letter for running to your lover at this terrible moment for your... |
| Residence | Storm Jameson | SJ
did not remain solely at Heathfield throughout the war. Like Vera Brittain
, she took rooms in London in Portland Place: while Brittain wote England's Hour (published in 1941 and dedicated to Jameson)... |
| Residence | Winifred Holtby | Now or soon afterwards WH
and Vera Brittain
began sharing their first London flat at 52 Doughty Street, Bloomsbury. Biographers of Brittain date this event as happening in January 1922. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 166-7 Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996. 159, 161 Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999. 106 |
| Textual Features | Storm Jameson | The author discusses her literary and political strategies in a letter to Evelyn Sharp
in the month of publication. I am sending you a book written first against war. I thought that I should more... |
| Textual Features | Winifred Holtby | Although not explicitly autobiographical, The Crowded Street owes much to WH
's relationship with Vera Brittain
: Brittain recognized herself in Delia, and Holtby remarked that Muriel was part of me only—the stupid frightened part... |
| Textual Features | Storm Jameson | Throughout this work SJ
glosses over such events as marriage, divorce, and illness in favour of examining her psychology and behaviour, her struggle to balance motherhood and a public career, the value of creative writing... |
| Textual Production | Simone de Beauvoir | A valedictory volume of SB
's autobiography appeared under the title of Tout compte fait (translated into English in 1974 by Patrick O'Brian
as All Said and Done). The original title is bound to... |
| Textual Production | Storm Jameson | SJ
edited and wrote in Challenge to Death: A Symposium on War and Peace, an anthology featuring Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, Rebecca West
, Edmund Blunden
, Julian Huxley
, J. B. Priestley
, and Guy Chapman
. Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009. 123n53 Jameson, Storm, editor. Challenge to Death. Constable, 1934. prelims Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970. 326-7 |
| Textual Production | Jan Morris | More than a decade later, in 1978, JM
followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less... |
| Textual Production | Stevie Smith | SS
's list of requisites for a critic or reviewer goes like this: Attention, impartiality, and no regard for age or sex. Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage, 1983. 173 |
| Textual Production | Winifred Holtby | WH
dedicated the novel to her friend Jean Finlay McWilliam
and took its title from a poem by Vera Brittain
. Holtby, Winifred. The Crowded Street. Virago, 1981. prelims Hardisty, Claire, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. The Crowded Street, Virago, 1981, p. ix - xiii. ix |
| Textual Production | Phyllis Bentley | Most of PB
's manuscripts are held by Halifax Central Library
. The Royal Society of Literature
in London holds a collection of her letters, while her correspondence with Vera Brittain
is held by McMaster University |
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