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Vera Brittain's letters to Roland Leighton, August 1915 : Correspondence; Personal Collection
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Vera Brittain's letters to Roland Leighton, August 1915 : Correspondence; Personal Collection 1915.
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Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2011.
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1 online resource
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Vera Brittain material copyright Mark Bostridge and Timothy Brittain-Catlin, literary executors for the Estate of Vera Brittain 1970. No Vera Brittain material may be reproduced in any form without the permission of her literary estate.
AMDigital Reference: Vera Brittain Fonds, Section K: Outgoing Correspondence, Box 38, Folder 17.
Reproduction of: Vera Brittain's letters to Roland Leighton, August 1915 1915.
William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, McMaster University Library
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Description: Letters written to her fiance during the war.Vera Brittain, writer, lecturer, pacifist, and feminist, was born on 29 December 1893 at Newcastle-under-Lyme. She went up to Somerville College, Oxford in 1914 but left to serve as a VAD in World War I. She returned to Oxford after the war where she became friends with Winifred Holtby, a budding novelist. She married George Catlin in 1925 and became the mother of two children. Her most well-known book is Testament of Youth (1933) about her experiences in World War I. During World War II she was a leading member of the Peace Pledge Union. She died in London on 29 March 1970.
Variant and related titles
First world war. Module 1, Personal experiences.
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Language
English
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October 22, 2024
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