Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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.
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Textual Production
Winifred Holtby
WH
's anti-Fascist play, Take Back Your Freedom, was posthumously published with an introduction by Vera Brittain
and Tyrone Guthrie
.
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Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press.
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Jameson, Storm, editor. Challenge to Death. Constable.
prelims
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
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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...
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
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.
prelims
The novel, completed in August 1923, did not wholly satisfy its author.
Hardisty, Claire, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. The Crowded Street, Virago, p. ix - xiii.
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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.
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The work itself fulfilled the aim of Femina Books
: to produce titles with...
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.
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Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
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...
