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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
There was a time when autobiographies were only written by the old, who alone, it was supposed, had had experiences numerous and notable enough to make ...
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Critical Essay by Mary Ross
Vera Brittain's "Testament of Youth" was the story of her own experiences through World War I and the post-war years till 1925. ["Born 1925...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
A quarter of a century ago there appeared Testament of Youth, one of those rare books which are a landmark for a whole generation. To young people, and ...
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Critical Essay by Eve Auchincloss
Testament of Youth is an unflinching account of the early life of an Englishwoman whom circumstances and conscience made an eloquent witness to a war that in this cen...
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Critical Essay by Phillip Whitehead
The reader approaches [Chronicle of Youth] with some reservations. Vera Brittain made a number of unsuccessful attempts to have her war diaries published in her lif...
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Critical Essay by Paul Delany
When Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth was published in 1933 it struck a deep chord among those in England who felt, as she did, that their youth had been '...
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Critical Essay by Fred J. Ringel
During the lull after a literary deluge of experiences of the last war and rising warnings against the coming chemical extinction of mankind, books [of the sort of Tes...
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