Biography
Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounted her experiences during the First World War and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism. Brief Biography by Paul Berry, her literary executor, in the foreword to Testament of Experience, 1980 Virago edition.
Profile of Vera Brittain at Peace Pledge Union website. Accessed June 2008.
Mark Bostridge, "The making of a peacenik", The Guardian, 30 August 2003. Accessed June 2008.
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Known ForWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday1893-12-29
Deathday1970-03-29 (76 years old)
Birth PlaceNewcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom
ReligionAnglicanism
ChildrenJohn Edward Jocelyn Brittain Catlin, Shirley Williams
SiblingsEdward Brittain
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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