This is a biographical study of the English writer and social activist Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth .
About the Author
Deborah Gorham was born in New York, but has lived for many years in Ottawa, Canada, where she is Professor of History at Carleton University and Director of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's Studies. She has published numerous articles and books on British and Canadian women's history, including The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal (1982), Up and Doing: Canadian Women and Peace (1990), co-edited with Janice Williamson, and Caring and Curing: Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada (1994), co-edited with Dianne Dodd.
Features
Scholarly but readable evaluation of the historical contribution of one the leading C20 female figures (author of Testament of Youth serialized on TV)
Subject of wide, general interest for work as writer, feminist and pacifist
Draws from both published and unpublished material
