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Vera Brittain (1893–1970)

Autor de Testament of Youth

37+ Obras 3,724 Miembros 86 Reseñas 12 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

Incluye los nombres: Vera Britain, Vera Brittan, britten vera, Vera Brittain, Vera Birittain, Vera Mary Brttain, Vera Mary Brittain

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Vera Brittain's Testament

Obras de Vera Brittain

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Testament of Youth (1933) 2,154 copias

Testament of Friendship (1940) 316 copias

Testament of Experience (1957) 280 copias

Letters From a Lost Generation (1998) 208 copias

Chronicle of Youth: War Diary, 1913-17 (1981) 146 copias

England's Hour (Common Reader Editions: LONDON LIBRARY) (1941) 73 copias

Honourable Estate (1936) 60 copias

The Dark Tide (1923) 55 copias

Testament of a Generation: The Journalism of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby (1985) 55 copias

Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After (2008) 46 copias

Born 1925 (1948) 42 copias

Testament of Youth [2014 film] (2015) — Original book — 40 copias

Account Rendered (1944) 28 copias

Radclyffe Hall: A Case of Obscenity? (1968) 21 copias

Humiliation with honor (1942) 21 copias

Above all nations (1945) 20 copias

The rebel passion; a short history of some pioneer peacemakers (1964) 19 copias

Wartime Chronicle: Diary, 1939-45 (1989) 19 copias

Chronicle of Friendship: Diaries of the Thirties, 1932-39 (1986) 16 copias

One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World War - "Humiliation with Honour" and "Seed of Chaos" (2005) 16 copias

Testament of a Peace Lover: Letters (1988) 14 copias

On Becoming a Writer (1947) 9 copias

Thrice a stranger: new chapters of autobiography (1938) 9 copias

Lady Into Woman: A History of Women From Victoria to Elizabeth II (1953) 8 copias

The Women at Oxford: A Fragment of History (1960) 7 copias

Valiant Pilgrim (2011) 7 copias

Poems of the War and After (1934) 6 copias

In the steps of John Bunyan: an excursion into Puritan England (1950) 6 copias

Selected Letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain (1920-1935) (1960) 6 copias

Search after sunrise (1951) 5 copias

Verses of a V.A.D. by Vera Brittain (1995) 3 copias

The Pictorial History of St. Martin in-the-Fields, The Royal Parish Church (Pitkin "Pride of Britain" Books) (1965) 3 copias

Not Without Honour (1924) 2 copias

Brittain, Vera Archive 1 copia

Envoy Extraordinary: A Study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and Her Contribution to Modern India (Routledge Revivals) (2021) 1 copia

Literary Testaments 1 copia

Pethick-Lawrence : a portrait (2022) 1 copia

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Testament of Youth [1979 TV Mini-series] 4 copias

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Conocimiento común

Nombre legal: Brittain, Vera Mary
Fecha de nacimiento: 1893-12-29
Fecha de fallecimiento: 1970-03-29
Lugar de sepultura: Granezza British Cemetery, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy (part of her ashes scattered on her brother Edward's grave|1970)
St James the Great churchyard, Old Milverton, Warwickshire, England (part of her ashes scattered on her husband George Catlin's grave|1979)
Género: female
Nacionalidad: UK
Lugar de nacimiento: Newcastle-under-Lyme, England, UK
Lugar de fallecimiento: Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Lugares de residencia: Newcastle-under-Lyme, England, UK
Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, UK
Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Educación: Oxford University (Somerville College)
Ocupaciones: writer
pacifist
autobiographer
Relaciones: Holtby, Winifred (companion|1919|Holtby's death|1935)
Catlin, George Edward Gordon (husband|1925|her death|1970)
Catlin, John (brother)
Williams, Shirley (daughter)
Organizaciones: Anglican Pacifist Fellowship
Peace Pledge Union
Voluntary Aid Detachment
Six Point Group
Biografía breve: Vera Brittain is best kown today for her memoirs of life during and after World War I. She met Winifred Holtby in 1919 and the two writers shared a home and care of Brittain's children with George Gordon Catlin until Holtby's death in 1935.

Miembros

Debates

Group Read, November 2014: Testament of Youth en 1001 Books to read before you die (noviembre 2014)

Testament of Youth - Part 1 en Group Reads - Literature (julio 2013)

Reseñas

Testamento de juventud por Vera Brittain

"Historia de una juventud perdida", de José María Guelbenzu, Babelia, 09.11.2019: https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/11/05/babelia/1572971894_396817.html

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Estadísticas

Obras: 37
También por: 8
Miembros: 3,724
Popularidad: #6,804
Valoración: 4.1

Reseñas: 86
ISBNs: 97
Idiomas: 5
Favorito: 12

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