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Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist [1] 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.
Testament of Youth is a memoir of British nurse and activist Vera Brittain (1893–1970), published in 1933. Brittain's memoir covers the years 1900 to 1925, and continues with Testament of Experience, published in 1957, and encompassing the years 1925 to 1950.
Edward Harold Brittain, MC (30 November 1895 – 15 June 1918) was a British Army officer who was killed in the First World War; he was immortalised by his sister Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth. Early life
A Woman in Love and War: Vera Brittain was a television documentary on the life of Vera Brittain and her experiences in the First World War. It was first broadcast on Remembrance Sunday 2008 on BBC One. It was presented by Jo Brand. The programme included interviews with Brittain's daughter Shirley Williams, Brittain's biographer Mark Bostridge ...
Testament of Youth is a 2014 British drama film based on the First World War memoir of the same name written by Vera Brittain. The film stars Alicia Vikander as Vera Brittain, an independent young woman who abandoned her studies at Somerville College, Oxford, to become a war nurse. [4] The film was directed by James Kent and written by Juliette ...
Testament of Experience by Vera Brittain (1957). [ 59 ] There is a substantial article on Shirley Williams by Phillip Whitehead in the Dictionary of Labour Biography , edited by Greg Rosen, Politico's Publishing , 2001, and one by Dick Newby in the Dictionary of Liberal Biography , edited by Duncan Brack, Politico's Publishing, 1998.
Paul Brittain joined the "Saturday Night Live" cast in 2010. During his time on the "SNL" stage, he portrayed stars like James Franco and Johnny Depp, as well as public figures like politician Ron ...
Vera Brittain wrote about Richardson in her First World War best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, based in part on the diary she had kept during the war, later published as Chronicle of Youth. Richardson's letters to Vera Brittain were published in a book by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge called Letters from a Lost Generation.