Vera Mary Brittain (29 Desember 1893 – 29 Maret 1970) adalah seorang Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), perawat, penulis, sosialis, dan feminisme berkebangsaan Inggris. Memoarnya yang terlaris pada tahun 1933 Testament of Youth menceritakan pengalamannya selama Perang Dunia Pertama dan awal perjalanannya menuju pasifisme.
Vera Brittain | |
|---|---|
Brittain setelah Perang Dunia I | |
| Lahir | 29 Desember 1893 Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, Inggris |
| Meninggal | 29 Maret 1970 (umur 76) Wimbledon, London, Inggris |
| Pekerjaan | |
| Almamater | Somerville College, Oxford |
| Genre | |
| Karya terkenal | Testament of Youth |
| Pasangan | Sir George Catlin |
| Anak | John Brittain-Catlin Shirley Williams |
Daftar pustaka sunting
- Vera Brittain by Hilary Bailey. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1987. ISBN 0140080031
- Vera Brittain: A Life, by Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge, Chatto & Windus, 1995, Pimlico, 1996, Virago 2001, 2008 ISBN 1-86049-872-8.
- Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life, by Deborah Gorham, University of Toronto Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8020-8339-0.
- Vera Brittain and the First World War, by Mark Bostridge, Bloomsbury, 2014. ISBN 9781408188446 OCLC 902612485
Karya sunting
- 1923 – The Dark Tide
- 1929 – Halcyon: Or, The Future of Monogamy (To-day and To-morrow pamphlet series)
- 1933 – Testament of Youth
- 1936 – Honourable Estate
- 1940 – Testament of Friendship
- 1944 – Seed of Chaos (Massacre by Bombing: U.S. title)
- 1957 – Testament of Experience
- 1981 – Chronicle of Youth: The War Diary, 1913–1917, edited by Alan Bishop with Terry Smart
- 1998 – Letters from a Lost Generation, edited by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge
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- Higonnet, Margaret R. (1987). Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars. Yale University Press. hlm. 70.
- Mark Bostridge (21 May 2012). "Vera's Testament is young again". The Daily Telegraph.
Catatan sunting
- Brief Biography by Paul Berry, her literary executor, in the foreword to Testament of Experience, 1980 Virago edition.
- Profile of Vera Brittain 2018-02-16 di Wayback Machine. at Peace Pledge Union website. Accessed June 2008
- The making of a peacenik, Mark Bostridge, The Guardian, 30 August 2003. Accessed June 2008
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Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Vera Brittain.
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- Karya Vera Brittain di Project Gutenberg
- Vera Brittain's archives are held at McMaster University
- Carol Acton: Brittain, Vera, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
- The Vera Brittain Collection 2017-12-23 di Wayback Machine. in The First World War Poetry Digital Archive 2008-12-02 di Wayback Machine. dari Oxford University
- Images of Vera Brittain at JAMD.
- Vera Brittain di Find a Grave