Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 29. Dezember 1893 |
Geburtsort | Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, England |
Todesort | London |
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Beschreibung | Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) 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. |
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
