Vera Brittain
Vera Mary Brittain (29 Desember 1893 – 29 Maret 1970) adalah seorang Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), perawat, penulis, sosialis, dan feminisme berkebangsaan Inggris.[1] Memoarnya yang terlaris pada tahun 1933 Testament of Youth menceritakan pengalamannya selama Perang Dunia Pertama dan awal perjalanannya menuju pasifisme.[2]
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
- 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
- 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
Referensi
Catatan
- Brief Biography by Paul Berry, her literary executor, in the foreword to Testament of Experience, 1980 Virago edition.
- Profile of Vera Brittain Diarsipkan 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
Pranala luar
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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 Diarsipkan 2017-12-23 di Wayback Machine. in The First World War Poetry Digital Archive Diarsipkan 2008-12-02 di Wayback Machine. dari Oxford University
- Images of Vera Brittain at JAMD.
- Vera Brittain di Find a Grave