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Vera Brittain
English nurse and writer (–)
Vera Mary Brittain (29 December – 29 March ) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist[1] and pacifist.
Her best-selling memoir Testament of Youth recounted her experiences during the First World War and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.
Life and work
Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England, Vera Brittain was the daughter of a well-to-do paper manufacturer, (Thomas) Arthur Brittain (–) and his wife, Edith Mary (Bervon) Brittain (–).
Her father was a director of family-owned paper mills in Hanley and Cheddleton. Her mother was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, the daughter of an impoverished musician, John Inglis Bervon.[2]
When Brittain was 18 months old, her family moved to Macclesfield, Cheshire, and 10 years later, in , they moved again, to the spa town of Buxton in Derbyshire.
As Brittain was growing up, her only sibling, her brother Edward, nearly two years h