Vera Brittain : a feminist life
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Vera Brittain : a feminist life
Blackwell Publishers, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-315) and index
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Description
This is a biographical study of the English writer and social activist Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth .
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction.
Part I: Macclesfield and Buxton:.
2. Origin, 1893-1911.
3. 'Provincial Young Ladyhood', 1911-1914.
Part II: 'History's Greatest Disaster': Love and Work in the Great War:.
4. Somerville, 1914-1915.
5. Love in Wartime.
6. War Work.
Part III: 'Lady into Woman': Friendship, Work and Marriage in the 1920s:.
7. Friendship and Feminism.
8. Feminism and Internationalism.
9. Semi-detached Marriage.
Part IV: 'Having Crossed the Rubicon': The 1930s and After:.
10. The Writing of Testament of Youth.
11. 'Having crossed the Rubicon.'.
12. Conclusion.
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