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Jan 12, 2015 · Shirley Williams: testament to my extraordinary mother Vera Brittain. As the film of Testament of Youth hits cinema screens, the daughter of its author, Vera Brittain, talks about growing...
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]
Vera Brittain and the Shell-Shocked Women of World War One. 80,000 cases of shell shock – a forebear of modern Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – were reported by the British Army between 1914 and 1918.
The reputation of Vera Mary Brittain, named a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1946, 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 Years 1900–1925.
Oct 8, 2014 · Died 29 March 1970 in London, England. Vera Brittain’s memoir Testament of Youth, and her wartime diary published in 1981 helped to validate women’s experiences of the First World War, and especially the legacy of sorrow that they carried in the aftermath of the war. Table of Contents. 1 Introduction. 2 The War and its Aftermath.
Back in Buxton in 1912 and 1913, Vera attended a course of Oxford University extension lectures given by the historian John Marriot. Studying largely on her own, she was awarded an exhibition to Somerville College, Oxford, to study English Literature, in March 1914.
Texts by. Texts about. Vera Brittain - Vera Brittain was born in 1893 in Staffordshire. She served as a nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment during World War I before publishing her first poetry collection, Verses of a V.A.D (Erskine Macdonald), in 1918. She died in London in 1970.
