Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life

By Deborah Gorham

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802083390
• ISBN13: 9780802083395
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"