Vera Brittain was born at Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire in December, 1893, the daughter of a wealthy manufacturer. During World War I she served as a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse, an experience which interrupted her studies at Oxford and which she recounted in her autobiographical Testament of Youth (1933).
Although Vera wrote numerous volumes of poetry and fiction, she is more widely known for two later works: Testament of Friendship (1940) and Testament of Experience (1957).
Her brother, her fiance and two close friends were killed in the war leading Vera toward becoming a pacifist. She died in 1970.
Source: The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Ian Ousby, 1993.
Today in The Neat L'l Bookshop the topic: Poetry WWI including Vera Brittain ~ Dr. Alan Bishop. Everyone welcome.
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