Overview
This is a biographical study of the English writer and social activist Vera Brittain, (1893-1970). Author of more than twenty books and a successful journalist, Brittain is best known for her autobiographical Testament of Youth, which is remembered as the most important book of the First World War written from a woman's perspective. In the interwar decades, Vera Brittain became a staunch advocate of equal-rights feminism, an internationalist, and, by the late 1930s, a pacifist. In this book, Deborah Gorham focuses on Vera Brittain's struggles and achievements as a feminist. She contends that in both her public and private life, Brittain was representative of the group of educated middle-class women who brought to fruition the goals of Victorian bourgeois feminism in the years following the Great War.
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- ISBN-13: 9780631147152
- ISBN-10: 0631147152
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publish Date: April 1996
- Dimensions: 9.28 x 6.16 x 1.38 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.43 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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