Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 29. Dezember 1893 |
Geburtsort | Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, England |
Todesort | London |
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Beschreibung | Vera Mary Brittain (29. Dezember 1893 - 29. März 1970) war eine englische Krankenschwester des Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), Schriftstellerin, Feministin, Sozialistin und Pazifistin. In ihrem Bestseller "Testament of Youth" aus dem Jahr 1933 schildert sie ihre Erlebnisse während des Ersten Weltkriegs und den Beginn ihres Weges zum Pazifismus. |
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.
