Testament of Youth
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Testament of Youth is a memoir of British nurse and activist Vera Brittain, published in 1933. Brittain's memoir covers the years 1900 to 1925, and continues with Testament of Experience, published in
First UK edition
Vera Brittain
Edward Brittain
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Edward Harold Brittain, MC was a British Army officer who was killed in the First World War; he was immortalised by his sister Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth.
Testament of Youth
…social context. Several critics have noted the cathartic process by which the memoir deals with her grief at the loss of young men close to her: brother Edward Brittain, her fiancé Roland Leighton, and her friends Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow. The narrative begins with Vera's plans to enter Somerville College…
Brittain's CWGC headstone in Granezza British Cemetery