# Vera Brittain
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Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist, and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounted her experiences during the First World War and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.
== Life and work ==
Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Brittain was the daughter of a well-to-do paper manufacturer, Thomas Arthur Brittain (1864–1935) and his wife, Edith Bervon Brittain (1868–1948), who owned paper mills in Hanley and Cheddleton.
Sunday Recap & Commence by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.
May 26 - St. Pancras Station, August 1915 by Vera Brittain
May 27 - The Coliseum by Edgar Allan Poe
May 28 - The garden path and all that jazz by Anisha SenGupta Yanger @anishasgy
May 29 - Did you know? by Ma…
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Alden Carrow Reads War and Peace in Poetry: May Wedderburn Cannan, Vera Brittain, and Voices of Remembrance,. Plus, Airedale - Lines Woven in Water and Stone
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What if the thing you're chasing isn't actually the thing you need?
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Shirley Williams Audiobook by Shirley Williams
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RN Armistice 100 The Bookshelf podcast extra: On Robert Graves' Good-Bye to All That and a coda for Vera Brittain
A conversation with Jean Moorcoft Wilson on the life of British war poet and novelist, Robert Graves; and a postscript on the life of writer and peace activist Vera Brittain.
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How much freedom do we really have to write the story of our own lives?In this episode of The Scholar’s Armchair, I speak with Anne E. Fernald about her new book, Her Own Voice: Eight Women Who Rewrote Life and Art.With Virginia Woolf and 'A Room of One’s Own' as a guiding presence, Anne tells the …
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