While he studied at the London School of Economics, Jameson supported their household, sometimes taking on more commercial work rather than devoting herself to further intellectual experiment. In their biography of Vera Brittain
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Friends, Associates
Vera Brittain
In summer 1942 she struck up a friendship with Paul Berry
, a distant cousin of Winifred Holtby's, whom Brittain thought a charming young man. Berry was a pacifist and semi-conscientious objector (he was working...
Textual Features
Vera Brittain
The central character in Born 1925, Adrian, is a vicar who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his service in the first World War, but who by the second has become a pacifist and...
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Muriel Box
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'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...
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Vera Brittain
Her chief reason for writing these letters, said VB
, was the flow of correspondence coming to her from people asking how they could oppose the war, or making suggestions that women in particular should...
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Texts
Brittain, Vera, and Winifred Holtby. Testament of a Generation. Editors Berry, Paul and Alan Bishop, Virago, 1985.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.