Vera Brittain

personal-info

known-for

Writing

gender

Female

birthday

1893-12-29

place-of-birth

Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, England, UK

also-known-as

biography

Vera Mary Brittain was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, writer, feminist, socialist, and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir 'Testament of Youth' recounted her experiences during the First World War and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.