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Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist [1] and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounted her experiences during the First World War and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.
Testament of Experience by Vera Brittain (1957). [ 59 ] There is a substantial article on Shirley Williams by Phillip Whitehead in the Dictionary of Labour Biography , edited by Greg Rosen, Politico's Publishing , 2001, and one by Dick Newby in the Dictionary of Liberal Biography , edited by Duncan Brack, Politico's Publishing, 1998.
This had the support of the Vera Brittain Estate, Brittain's daughter Shirley Williams, and Brittain's biographer Mark Bostridge who acted as a consultant. [4] Saoirse Ronan was cast to play Brittain in 2012 [ 5 ] but was replaced in December 2013 when it was announced that Alicia Vikander would play Vera Brittain in the film which was released ...
A Woman in Love and War: Vera Brittain was a television documentary on the life of Vera Brittain and her experiences in the First World War. It was first broadcast on Remembrance Sunday 2008 on BBC One. It was presented by Jo Brand. The programme included interviews with Brittain's daughter Shirley Williams, Brittain's biographer Mark Bostridge ...
Campbell is known for her starring role as Vera Brittain in the BBC's television dramatisation of Testament of Youth (1979), for which she received Best Actress awards from the British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) and the Broadcasting Press Guild Award. [4] Campbell's one other role in a work by Potter was as Janet in Rain on the Roof (1980 ...
Her daughter, Hannah Einbinder, is ... NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images and Vera Anderson/WireImage via Getty Images. ... Paul Brittain joined the "Saturday Night Live" cast in 2010. During ...
Vera Wang is bringing her bold sense of style into the new year.. When it comes to the holidays, the fashion industry icon loves to coordinate outfits with her daughters, Cecilia Becker, 34, and ...
Sylvia Thompson was born in Scotland, the daughter of Norman Arthur Thompson (founder of the Norman Thompson Flight Company) and Ethel Hannah Levis. She attended Somerville College, Oxford like her mother. Other literary contemporaries at Somerville College included Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby, Hilda Reid and Margaret Kennedy. She ...