Vera Brittain

Writer & Feminist

(1893 – 1970) · Western Europe

English writer, pacifist, and feminist whose memoir Testament of Youth, published in 1933, became one of the defining documents of the First World War generation. She abandoned her studies at Oxford to serve as a nurse during the war, losing her fiancé, brother, and two close friends. She remained a committed pacifist and feminist activist for the rest of her life.