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Vera Mary Brittain

Female : Socialist and writer. Married Professor George E Catlin 1925
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire

Date of Birth : 1893 Date of Death : 1970 Age : 77

Other Work : Journalist

Education : Somerville College, Oxford (left after one year)
1918-1930
Verses of a V.A.D.
(1918 Erskine MacDonald) - Voluntary Aid Detachment
The Dark Tide
(1923 Grant Richards) - novel
Not Without Honour
(1924 Grant Richards) - novel
Women's Work in Modern England
(1928 Noel Douglas)
Halcyon, or the Future of Monogamy
(1929 Kegan Paul)

1931-1940
Testament of Youth : An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
(1933 Gollancz)
Poems of the War and After
(1934 Gollancz)
Honourable Estate : A Novel of Transition
(1936 Gollancz)
Thrice a Stranger : New Chapters of Autobiography
(1938 Gollancz)
Testament of Friendship : The Story of Winifred Holtby
(1940 Macmillan)
War-Time Letters to Peace Lovers
(1940 Peace Book Co)

1941-1950
England's Hour : An Autobiography 1939-1941
(1941 Macmillan)
Humiliation with Honour
(1942 Andrew Dakers)
One of these Little Ones .. A Plea to Parents and Others for Europe's Children
(1943 Andrew Dakers)
Seed of Chaos : What Mass Bombing Really Means
(1944 The Bombing Restriction Committee)
- pamphlet
Account Rendered : A Novel
(1945 Macmillan 9/6)
Above all Nations : An Anthology
(1945 Gollancz)
- compiled by Brittain, Catlin & Sheila Hodges
On Becoming a Writer
(1947 Hutchinson)
Born 1925 : A Novel of Youth
(1948 Macmillan)
In the Steps of John Bunyan : An Excursion into Puritan England
(1950 Rich & Cowan)

1951-1960
Search After Sunrise
(1951 Macmillan)
The Story of St Martin's : An Epic of London
(1951 Pitkin Pictorial)
Lady into Woman : A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II
(1953 Andrew Dakers)
Testament of Experience : An Autobiographical Story of the Years 1925-1950
(1957 Gollancz)
The Women at Oxford : A Fragment of History
(1960 Harrap)

1961-1970
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence : A Portrait
(1963 Allen & Unwin)
The Rebel Passion : A Short History of Some Pioneer Peacemakers
(1964 Allen & Unwin)
Envoy Extraordinary : A study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit & Her Contribution to Modern India
(1965 Allen & Unwin)
Radclyffe Hall : A Case of Obscenity ?
(1968 Femina Books)

AFTER 1971
Chronicle of Youth, War Diary 1913-17
(1981 Gollancz) - edited by Alan Bishop
Testament of a Generation : The Journalism of Vera Brittain & Winifred Holtby
(1985 Virago) - edited by Paul Berry & Alan Bishop
Chronicle of Friendship, Diary of the Thirties 1932-9
(1986 Gollancz) - edited by Bishop
Testament of a Peace Lover : Letters from Vera Brittain
(1988 Virago)
- edited by W & A Eden-Green
Wartime Chronicle - Brittain's Diary 1939-45
(1989 Gollancz £16.95)
- edited by Bishop & Y Aleksandra Bennett

READING
Selected Letters of Winifred Holtby & Vera Brittain1920-1935
(1960 A Brown)
- edited by Vera Brittain & G Handley-Taylor
Hilary Bailey : Vera Brittain
(1987 Penguin)
John Catlin : Family Quartet
(1987 Hamish Hamilton)
Jean Kennard : Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby - A Working Partnership
(1989 Univ of New England Press, US)
Paul Berry : Vera Brittain - A Life
(1990)
Paul Berry & Mark Bostridge : Vera Brittain - A Life
(1995 Chatto & Windus £25)
Deborah Gorham : Vera Brittain - A Feminist Life
(1996 Blackwell £20)

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