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 							Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
  
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Year: 1933
  
  Language: English
  
  
 

  In 1915 Vera Brittain abandoned her studies at Oxford to enlist as a nurse in the armed forces, serving in
London, in Malta, and at the Western Front in France. By war’s end, all those closest to her were dead, and she
had witnessed firsthand the destruction and suffering of modern combat. 
  Much of what we know and feel about the
First World War we owe to Brittain’s Testament of Youth. In this elegiac yet unsparing memoir, Brittain focused
on the men and women who came of age as war broke out, exploring their politics, their hopes, and their fatal idealism.
Acclaimed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped “both form and define the mood of its
time,” this searing portrait is also a testament to every generation irrevocably changed by war.
  
 
The author
  
  
  
  Born in
Newcastle-under-Lyme, Vera Brittain was the daughter of a well-to-do family who owned paper mills in Hanley and
Cheddleton. She had an uneventful childhood with her only brother her closest companion. At 18 months her family moved
to Macclesfield, Cheshire, and when she was 11 they moved again, to Buxton in Derbyshire. From the age of thirteen she
attended boarding school at St Monica's, Kingswood in Surrey where her aunt was principal.
  Studying English
Literature at Somerville College, Oxford, she delayed her degree after one year in the summer of 1915 to work as a
V.A.D. nurse for much of the First World War. Her fiancé Roland Leighton, two other close friends Victor Richardson
and Geoffrey Thurlow, and her brother Edward Brittain MC were all killed during the war. Their letters to each other are
documented in the book Letters from a Lost Generation.
  Returning to Oxford after the war to read History,
Brittain found it difficult to adjust to life among the postwar generation. It was at this time she met Winifred Holtby,
and a close friendship developed with both aspiring to become established on the London literary scene. The bond lasted
until Holtby's death in 1935. Other literary contemporaries at Somerville College included Hilda Reid, Margaret Kennedy,
and Sylvia Thompson.
  In 1925, Brittain married George Catlin, a political scientist and philosopher. Their son,
John Brittain-Catlin (1927–1987), was an artist painter, businessman, and the author of the autobiography Family
Quartet, which appeared in 1987. Their daughter, born in 1930, is the former Labour Cabinet Minister, now Liberal
Democrat peer, Shirley Williams.
  Brittain's first published novel was The Dark Tide (1923). It was not until 1933
that she published Testament of Youth, which was followed by the sequels Testament of Friendship (1940) – her
tribute to and biography of Winifred Holtby – and Testament of Experience (1957), the continuation of her own
story, which spanned the years between 1925 and 1950. Vera Brittain wrote from the heart, and based many of her novels
on actual experiences and actual people. In this regard, her novel Honourable Estate (1936) was in part more of a
memoir. Brittain's diaries 1913–17 were published in 1981 in Chronicle of Youth.
  In the 1920s she became a
regular speaker on behalf of the League of Nations Union, but in June 1936 she was invited to speak at a peace rally in
Dorchester, where she shared a platform with Dick Sheppard, George Lansbury, Laurence Housman and Donald Soper.
Afterwards Sheppard invited her to join the Peace Pledge Union, and following six months' careful reflection she replied
in January 1937 to say she would. Later that year Brittain also joined the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship. Her newly found
pacifism came to the fore during World War II, when she began the series of Letters to Peacelovers.
  She was a
practical pacifist in the sense that she helped the war effort by working as a fire warden and by travelling around the
country raising funds for the Peace Pledge Union's food relief campaign. She was vilified for speaking out against
saturation bombing of German cities through her 1944 booklet Massacre by Bombing. Her principled pacifist position was
vindicated somewhat when, in 1945, the Nazis' Black Book of 2000 people to be immediately arrested in Britain after a
German invasion was shown to include her name.
  From the 1930s onward, Brittain was a regular contributor to the
pacifist magazine Peace News. She eventually became a member of the magazine's editorial board, and during the 1950s and
1960s was "writing articles against apartheid and colonialism and in favour of nuclear disarmament".
  In November
1966, she suffered a fall in a badly lit London street while on the way to a speaking engagement. She fulfilled the
engagement, but afterwards found she had suffered a fractured left arm and broken little finger of her right hand. These
injuries began a physical decline in which her mind became more confused and withdrawn.
  Vera Brittain never fully
got over the death of her brother, Edward. When she died in Wimbledon on 29 March 1970, aged 76, her will requested that
her ashes be scattered on Edward's grave on the Asiago Plateau in Italy – "...for nearly 50 years much of my
heart has been in that Italian village cemetery". Her daughter honoured this request in September 1970. 						

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