Testament of Friendship (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Vera Brittain
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: From the late nineteenth century to 1935
- Setting: England and France
- Principal Characters: Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain, Bill, Margaret, Lady Rhondda, G. (George Edward Gordon Catlin)
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Memory, Social reform, Tradition, World War II, Manners or customs, Feminism, World War I, Lifestyles, Pacifism
- Locales: France, England
Form and Content
Shortly before her death, Winifred Holtby was asked to write her autobiography; ill health and the press of creative and political work prevented her from undertaking the project. Several years later, Vera Brittain wrote the biographical memoir Testament of Friendship from the unique perspective of an intimate friend of sixteen years with whom Holtby had shared apartments, houses, and holidays, both before and during Brittain’s marriage to G., whose academic and political activities frequently kept him away from the lodgings the three—and later...
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