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 [[w:Vera Brittain|Vera Mary Brittain, ] ( December 29 , 1893 – March 29 , 1970 ) was an English writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth , recounting her experiences during World...


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 Vera Mary Brittain, (December 29, 1893 – March 29, 1970) was an English writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the growth of...


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Vera Brittain: A Life.(Brief Article)
02/01/1996: 456 words, approx. 2 pages While unlikely that Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge or any other two male editors would easily comprehend the passionate feminism of the twenties which made Vera Britain such a cult figure for her generation, they do seem to dislike their subject and delineate...
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Critical Essay by Ben Ray Redman
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 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 be seen on earth again; but, failing that, he must at least strive to mitigate the evil in every way he can, using all the techniques at his command, including the comparatively new science of psychotherapy. This, in brief, is what Vera Brittain says at length in "Account Rendered," a novel that should please those readers who lik...
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Critical Essay by Mary Scrutton
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 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 line of [Testament of Experience], from the title onwards, that she is still the author of Testament of Youth…. Testament of Experience makes an effect of prolonged anti-climax. It is an amiable, miscellaneous sort of book, much, much too long and stuffed with dull quotations. It tells the story of her busy, distracted but on the whole sat...
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Critical Essay by Georgiana G. Stevens
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 Intended as a companion volume to "Testament of Youth," Vera Brittain's ["Honourable Estate"] is, as might be expected, a novel of ideas. It tells the story of three marriages and covers the period between 1894 and 1930. Considered separately, each marriage represents a phase in the struggle of women for political and moral suffrage…. The title, "Honourable Estate," also has a symbolical meaning. It refers here not only to marriage but, in a wider sens...


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