Vera Mary Brittain
Female : Socialist and writer. Married Professor George E Catlin 1925
Nationality : English
Place of Birth : Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire
Date of Birth : 1893 Date of Death : 1970 Age : 77
Other Work : Journalist
Education : Somerville College, Oxford (left after one year)
1918-1930
Verses of a V.A.D. (1918 Erskine MacDonald)
- Voluntary Aid Detachment
The Dark Tide (1923 Grant Richards)
- novel
Not Without Honour (1924 Grant Richards)
- novel
Women's Work in Modern England (1928 Noel Douglas)
Halcyon, or the Future of Monogamy (1929 Kegan Paul)
1931-1940
Testament of Youth : An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (1933 Gollancz)
Poems of the War and After (1934 Gollancz)
Honourable Estate : A Novel of Transition (1936 Gollancz)
Thrice a Stranger : New Chapters of Autobiography (1938 Gollancz)
Testament of Friendship : The Story of Winifred Holtby (1940 Macmillan)
War-Time Letters to Peace Lovers (1940 Peace Book Co)
1941-1950
England's Hour : An Autobiography 1939-1941 (1941 Macmillan)
Humiliation with Honour (1942 Andrew Dakers)
One of these Little Ones .. A Plea to Parents and Others for Europe's Children
(1943 Andrew Dakers)
Seed of Chaos : What Mass Bombing Really Means (1944 The Bombing Restriction Committee)
- pamphlet
Account Rendered : A Novel (1945 Macmillan 9/6)
Above all Nations : An Anthology (1945 Gollancz)
- compiled by Brittain, Catlin & Sheila Hodges
On Becoming a Writer (1947 Hutchinson)
Born 1925 : A Novel of Youth (1948 Macmillan)
In the Steps of John Bunyan : An Excursion into Puritan England (1950 Rich & Cowan)
1951-1960
Search After Sunrise (1951 Macmillan)
The Story of St Martin's : An Epic of London (1951 Pitkin Pictorial)
Lady into Woman : A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II (1953 Andrew Dakers)
Testament of Experience : An Autobiographical Story of the Years 1925-1950 (1957 Gollancz)
The Women at Oxford : A Fragment of History (1960 Harrap)
1961-1970
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence : A Portrait (1963 Allen & Unwin)
The Rebel Passion : A Short History of Some Pioneer Peacemakers (1964 Allen & Unwin)
Envoy Extraordinary : A study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit & Her Contribution to Modern India
(1965 Allen & Unwin)
Radclyffe Hall : A Case of Obscenity ? (1968 Femina Books)
AFTER 1971
Chronicle of Youth, War Diary 1913-17 (1981 Gollancz)
- edited by Alan Bishop
Testament of a Generation : The Journalism of Vera Brittain & Winifred Holtby
(1985 Virago)
- edited by Paul Berry & Alan Bishop
Chronicle of Friendship, Diary of the Thirties 1932-9 (1986 Gollancz)
- edited by Bishop
Testament of a Peace Lover : Letters from Vera Brittain (1988 Virago)
- edited by W & A Eden-Green
Wartime Chronicle - Brittain's Diary 1939-45 (1989 Gollancz £16.95)
- edited by Bishop & Y Aleksandra Bennett
READING
Selected Letters of Winifred Holtby & Vera Brittain1920-1935 (1960 A Brown)
- edited by Vera Brittain & G Handley-Taylor
Hilary Bailey : Vera Brittain (1987 Penguin)
John Catlin : Family Quartet (1987 Hamish Hamilton)
Jean Kennard : Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby - A Working Partnership
(1989 Univ of New England Press, US)
Paul Berry : Vera Brittain - A Life (1990)
Paul Berry & Mark Bostridge : Vera Brittain - A Life (1995 Chatto & Windus £25)
Deborah Gorham : Vera Brittain - A Feminist Life (1996 Blackwell £20)