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Vera Brittain's letters to Roland Leighton, April 1915 : Correspondence; Personal Collection
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Vera Brittain's letters to Roland Leighton, April 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 13.
Reproduction of: Vera Brittain's letters to Roland Leighton, April 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, including one letter written from Roland Leighton to Vera Brittain.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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