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Vera Brittain

1893 - 1970

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vera Brittain is the 2,900th most popular writer (up from 3,363rd in 2019), the 2,391st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,418th in 2019) and the 267th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vera Brittain ranks 2,900 out of 7,302. Before her are Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Edward Bunker, Johannes Mario Simmel, Ahron Daum, Michael Bond, and Dionysius Periegetes. After her are Aleksander Fredro, Vyacheslav Ivanov, May Ziade, Shulamith Firestone, Tom Stoppard, and Juan Gelman.

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Among people born in 1893, Vera Brittain ranks 135. Before her are Bekir Çoban-zade, László Hudec, Jean Acker, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Cedric Gibbons, and T. H. Marshall. After her are Heinrich George, Dora Carrington, Lucien Tesnière, Louise Weiss, Eugene Aynsley Goossens, and Walter Donaldson. Among people deceased in 1970, Vera Brittain ranks 127. Before her are Cathy O'Donnell, Unica Zürn, Lonnie Johnson, Félix Gaillard, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, and Sean Flynn. After her are Leah Goldberg, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Fernand Crommelynck, Peter Doi, Ștefan Barbu, and Robert Gerhard.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Vera Brittain ranks 2,391 out of 8,785. Before her are Cuthbert (635), Daisy, Princess of Pless (1873), Lorna Wing (1928), Michael Bond (1926), Catherine Carey (1523), and James H. Wilkinson (1919). After her are Veronica Cartwright (1949), Dora Carrington (1893), Richard Hughes (1900), Richard of Chichester (1197), Thomas Morley (1557), and Tony Judt (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Vera Brittain ranks 267. Before her are Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), John Evelyn (1620), Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Angela Carter (1940), and Michael Bond (1926). After her are Richard Hughes (1900), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), Tom Sharpe (1928), John Cleland (1709), Francis Beaumont (1584), and John Aubrey (1626).

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