biography
| name: |
Brittain, Vera (Mary)
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pronunciation:
[britn]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1893–1970)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, C England, UK. After studying at Oxford she served as a nurse in World War 1, recording her experiences with war-found idealism in Testament of Youth (1933). She later wrote Testament of Friendship (1940) and Testament of Experience (1957). She was a good friend of Winifred Holtby. In 1925 she married George Catlin (1896–1979), professor of politics at Cornell. Her daughter is the politician, Shirley Williams. |
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