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Synopsis
Vera Brittain (1893-1970) is best known as the author of Testament of Youth, the eloquent memoir of her World War I experiences that gave voice to a generation forever shattered and haunted by the Great War. Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge provide a full and candid account of Brittain's life that alters in important respects the self-portrait she presented in Testament of Youth and her later autobiographical work, Testament of Experience. Drawing on a treasure trove of private family papers and memorabilia, Berry and Bostridge chronicle her conservative and provincial upbringing, university education, and the devastating losses of her fiance, younger brother, and two friends in the first World War. They examine her struggles to become a successful writer, her close relationship with writer Winifred Holtby, her unconventional marriage to political scientist George Catlin, and her courageous stance against Britain's saturation bombing of Germany in World War II.
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About the Author
Paul Berry was Vera Brittain's close friend for twenty-eight years and her literary executor. He was coeditor of Testament of a Generation: The Journalism of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby. He died in 1999. Mark Bostridge was educated at Westminster School and Oxford University, where he won the Gladstone Memorial Prize. He is coeditor of Letters from a Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends, also published by Northeastern University Press. He lives in London.
Review
[The authors] have succeeded brilliantly in explaining the complications and inconsistencies of Vera Brittain's life in their carefully researched book. -- Martin Pugh, Times Literary Supplem ent
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- PublisherPIMLICO
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0712673156
- ISBN 13 9780712673150
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages587
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