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.

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Textual Production Sylvia Pankhurst
The following year, however, SP demonstrated diligent care for her mother's reputation: she was outraged by one paragraph in Ray Strachey 's The Cause. Though it expressed gratitude and admiration for Emmeline Pankhurst ...
Textual Production Winifred Holtby
The novel is defined by its subtitle as a Comedy of Irrelevance, and is dedicated to Vera Brittain , V.S.V.D.L. Irrelevantly.
Holtby, Winifred. Mandoa! Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance. Virago Press, 1982.
prelims
WH signed her letters to Brittain v.s.v.d.l.—very small, very dear love.
Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999.
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Textual Production Winifred Holtby
She had struggled to finish this novel in the final months of her illness.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
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Appointed her literary executor, Vera Brittain saw it through to publication after WH 's death, correcting the typescript and delivering...
Textual Production Muriel Box
MB 's first contact with her future second husband arose out of correspondence about legal matters canvassed in this book.
Box, Muriel. Rebel Advocate. Victor Gollancz, 1983.
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The work itself fulfilled the aim of Femina Books : to produce titles with...
Textual Production Winifred Holtby
After WH completed The Crowded Street, she began work on a historical romance based on the life of John Wycliffe and titled The Runners.
Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999.
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By February 1927, nine publishers had rejected this...
Textual Production Winifred Holtby
Vera Brittain compiled a posthumous collection of WH 's poetry, published as The Frozen Earth, and Other Poems.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996.
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Textual Production Winifred Holtby
This political drama, originally titled Hope of Thousands, was completed just months before Holtby's death in 1935, and by 1939 had not reached production. Vera Brittain arranged to have it published with minor revisions...
Textual Production Winifred Holtby
Hilda Reid and Vera Brittain edited a collection of WH 's short stories, published as Pavements at Anderby.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
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Textual Production Judith Kazantzis
This remarkable anthology brings to a wider audience poems by many otherwise unknown writers, as well as by, for instance, Vera Brittain , Edith Sitwell , Nancy Cunard , Cicely Hamilton , Rose Macaulay ,...
Textual Production Winifred Holtby
WH 's anti-Fascistplay, Take Back Your Freedom, was posthumously published with an introduction by Vera Brittain and Tyrone Guthrie .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Kathleen E. Innes
The pamphlet maintains that those who do not actually engage in the battle are perhaps in a position to make a saner judgment upon it as a whole than those who do.
Innes, Kathleen E. Women and War. Friends’ Peace Committee, 1934.
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Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
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Travel Kathleen E. Innes
The tours were designed to acquaint League of Nations Union speakers with the workings of the League. Social and cultural events and tours of Geneva and environs were also arranged. Vera Brittain , a LNU...

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