Vera Brittain : a feminist life

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    • Gorham, Deborah

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Vera Brittain : a feminist life

Deborah Gorham

Blackwell Publishers, 1996

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-315) and index

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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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