A Chronicle of Youth, part 2 : Personal Collection; Manuscript; Diary/Journal; 1915-1916

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Description: Part 2 of an annotated typescript of A Chronicle of Youth (unpublished).Vera Brittain, writer, lecturer, pacifist, and feminist, was born on 29 December 1893 at Newcastle-under-Lyme. S...

Description: Part 2 of an annotated typescript of A Chronicle of Youth (unpublished).Vera Brittain, writer, lecturer, pacifist, and feminist, was born on 29 December 1893 at Newcastle-under-Lyme.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.

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