Biography vera brittan

British writer, feminist, and a leading pacifist chronicler of her times. Born Vera Mary Brittain on December 29, 1893, in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England; died on March 29, 1970, in London; daughter of Thomas Arthur (a paper manufacturer) and Edith Mary (Bervon) Brittain; attended Somerville College, Oxford, 1914–15, 1919–21, M.A., 1925; married George Edward Gordon Catlin, June 27, 1925; children: John and Shirley Williams (b.

1930, British politician).

Selected publications:

Verses of a V.A.D.

Biography vera brittan

(E. Macdonald, 1918); The Dark Tide (Grant Richards, 1923); Not Without Honor (Grant Richards, 1923); Women's Work in Modern England (N. Douglas, 1928); Halcyon: The Future of Monogamy (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1929); Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900–1925 (Gollancz, 1933); Poems of the War and After (Gollancz, 1934); Honourable Estate: A Novel of Transition (Gollancz, 1936, published in America