Vera Brittain's reputation centers on her achievements as an influential British feminist and pacifist and on her famous memoir of World War I, Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Yea...
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Critical Essay by Ben Ray Redman
The evil that wars do lives after them, in many shapes and kinds. It would be well, or rather best if man could destroy this evil at the root, so that it might never ...
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Critical Essay by Mary Scrutton
There are times when an author is injured by being persistently connected with an early best-seller. This is not one of them. Vera Brittain makes it plain in every lin...
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Critical Essay by Helen Beal Woodward
"Testament of Experience" retraces the frightening pattern of increasing tolerance to cruelty, beginning with the civilian air raids in Spain which...
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Critical Essay by Charles Curran
[Testament of Experience] is a unique compound of doom and domesticity. For as Miss Brittain surveys the world in flames, she sees pictures in the fire; pictures of h...
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Critical Essay by Mary M. Colum
The life that was lived in childhood and adolescence by that generation of boys and girls who grew into young manhood and womanhood just before the outbreak of the War...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
Miss Brittain deprecates the idea that [the poems in Poems of the War and After] have any special distinction. They are published, she tells us in her ...
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Critical Essay by America
The chief merit of [Poems of the War and After] is their simple sincerity. Miss Brittain, better known for her Testament of Youth, without any posing has let her honest sing...
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Critical Essay by The Saturday Review of Literature
Vera Brittain is a serious writer, and in a foreword she firmly states the purpose of ["Honorable Estate"] which "purports to ...
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Critical Essay by Georgiana G. Stevens
Intended as a companion volume to "Testament of Youth," Vera Brittain's ["Honourable Estate"] is, as might be expected, a nov...
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Critical Essay by Gladys Davis
Miss Vera Brittain is a stirring person, and to stay with her through six hundred of her closely written, documented pages is a moving experience. In this first novel, ...
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Critical Essay by Craig Thompson
Miss Brittain, an Englishwoman, has seen fit to offer for publication a series of letters to her 15-year-old son in America ["Humiliation with Honor"] w...
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Vera (Mary) Brittain
Critical Essay by Ben Ray Redman
