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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 |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Winifred Holtby | WH
credited Vera Brittain
with making her a feminist during their years at Oxford. Before then, Winifred claimed that her mother's strong presence within her family had left her unaware that women suffered social and... |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
went to prison at least five more times over the course of her fight for female suffrage. She did not suffer from claustrophobia or anxiety in later imprisonments; on the contrary, at times she... |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Christabel Pankhurst
had escaped imprisonment by going into hiding in Paris. The Pethick-Lawrences were released on bail on 28 March, and their trial was set for 15 May. It ran until 22 May. The... |
| politics | Storm Jameson | In November 1928 SJ
was one of many authors (including E. M. Forster
, Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, and Desmond MacCarthy
) prepared to testify in defence of Radclyffe Hall
's lesbian novel The... |
| politics | Mary Stott | She scorned much of the debate as waffle but admired the clear, warm voice and the lucid, rational analysis offered by Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
). Sitting with other, mostly young women in... |
| politics | Lady Ottoline Morrell | She became an activist for pacifism, a movement in which she played many roles. She joined the Union for Democratic Control
, whose meetings were soon being held at her home (and whose members included... |
| politics | Dora Russell | The Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
(forerunner of CND) was founded. DR
was present at its inaugural meeting next day; other prominent members were Vera Brittain
, Julian Huxley
, J. B. Priestley |
| politics | Dora Russell | It featured such speakers as Vera Brittain
, Ethel Mannin
, Naomi Mitchison
, Marie Stopes
, Desmond MacCarthy
, Bertrand Russell
, and G. B. Shaw
. Papers given included DR
's Marriage and... |
| politics | Dora Russell | Other speakers included Vera Brittain
, Clemence Dane
, Megan Lloyd George
, and Storm Jameson
(all Six Point Vice-Presidents). The conference also involved the Married Women's Association
and the National Union of Women Teachers |
| politics | Maude Royden | Before embarking on this trip, MR
sought advice from fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain
, who had recently travelled to the US, on how best to approach the American people on the subject of peace. |
| politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Critic Arnold Rattenbury
feels that STW
's decision to join the Communist Party was the logical outcome of her earlier political choices, rather than a change of direction or feeling. Rattenbury, Arnold. “How the sanity of poets can be edited away”. London Review of Books, 14 Oct. 1999, pp. 15-19. 18 |
| Author summary | May Cannan | MC
was a war poet in and shortly after the First World War. In her (posthumously published) autobiography she performs, from a different viewpoint, something of the same function as Vera Brittain
as the historian... |
| Publishing | Storm Jameson | SJ
reviewed her friend Vera Brittain
's Testament of Youth for the Sunday Times. Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996. 2, 269 |
| Publishing | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | At first the journal appeared monthly for threepence an issue, but within six months it began appearing weekly for a penny an issue. Its circulation reached 30,000 by 1909, and much of its profits came... |
| Publishing | Storm Jameson | The plans for this publication were set in motion at a dinner party at the Wellington Club, hosted by Viscount Cecil
and organized primarily by Jameson and Philip Noel-Baker
. SJ
also edited the... |
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