Description
| Summary: | Description: Vera Brittain, writer, lecturer, pacifist, and feminist, was born on 29 December 1893 at Newcastle-under-Lyme. She went up to Somerville College, Oxford in 1914 but left to serve as a VAD in World War I. She returned to Oxford after the war where she became friends with Winifred Holtby, a budding novelist. She married George Catlin in 1925 and became the mother of two children. Her most well-known book is Testament of Youth (1933) about her experiences in World War I. During World War II she was a leading member of the Peace Pledge Union. She died in London on 29 March 1970.
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| Item Description: | Vera Brittain material copyright Mark Bostridge and Timothy Brittain-Catlin, literary executors for the Estate of Vera Brittain 1970. No Vera Brittain material may be reproduced in any form without the permission of her literary estate.
AMDigital Reference: Vera Brittain Fonds, Series D7. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource (viewed on October 15, 2018). |
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| Location of Originals/Duplicates Note: | William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, McMaster University Library |
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