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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 | 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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)... |
| 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 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 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. 114 |
| 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. 62-3 |
| 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. 332 |
| 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. |
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