Vera Brittain and the First World War
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Ludendorff, Erich 99
Macclesfield 5, 8
Mackenzie, Compton 141
Macmillan Publishers 137
MacMillan, Kenneth 167–9, 188–9
MacMillan, William 168–9
Malta 81–4
Malvern, Bishop of 149
Malvern College 149
Man from U.N.C.L.E., The 184
Marriott, John 17
Marshall, Ray 202
masculinity 29
Masefield, John 86
Gallipoli 86
Massacre by Bombing 154
‘May Morning’ 115
McKenzie, Revd H. W. 24
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man 125
Meredith, George 21
Merton College 19
Milestone, Lewis 188
money 2, 4
Morgan, Colin 184
Morgan, Elaine 161–3
feminism 162
Mottram, R. H. 156
Spanish Farm Trilogy, The 156
Moulson, Faith 97–8, 113, 115
Murdoch, Iris 185
music 7–8, 20
Mussolini, Benito 152
mustard gas 96–7, 168
mutiny 94, 150–51
My Apprenticeship 144
Naples 80
Nation, The 133
Nesbit, E. 170
Railway Children, The 170
Neuve Chapelle 47
Nevinson, C. R. W. 165
New College 18
New York Times 142
Newnham College 9
1914 48–9, 58–9
9th King’s Royal Rifles 85
no man’s land 45, 78
Northcliffe Press 20
Not Without Honour 15, 105, 117
nurses, volunteer see Voluntary Aid Detachment
‘O Dreams, O Destinations’ 136
Observer 164
Ogilvy, Heneage 206
On the Eve 44
Onward 43
Oppenheimer, Joe 176, 180
Oriel College 49
Owen, David 192
Owen, Wilfred 93–4, 163, 164
‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ 164
Oxford
Sheldonian Theatre 38
Oxford Senior Local Examinations 18, 19, 25, 33
Oxford University 15
Extension lectures 17
University Extension Delegacy 17
Oxford University Press 2
Paddington 182
Pankhurst family 11
patriotism 58
PBS see Public Broadcasting Service
Peace Pledge Union 152
Pennies from Heaven 163
Penrose, Emily 18, 51
photographs 195
Ploegsteert Wood 45
Potter, Dennis 163
Pennies from Heaven 163
Poulenc, Francis 167
Powell, Jonathan 161
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) 165
Pure 184
Queen Alexandra’s Hospital 103
Radio Times 164
Railway Children, The 170
Rathbone, Irene 129
We That Were Young 129
Red Cross 51, 62, 93, 96
‘Reflective Record’ 13, 44, 116
religion 15
Remarque, Erich Maria 125
Im Westen Nichts Neues 125
Richardson, Carrie 24
Richardson, Frank 91
Richardson, Maurice 165
Richardson, Miranda 184
Richardson, Victor 19, 24, 25, 34, 54–5, 73, 75, 77, 79, 85, 86–8, 90–91, 139, 142, 148, 149, 165, 175, 195, 203
blinding 87–8
cerebral meningitis 55
death 91–2
funeral 91–2
letters 85, 86–7, 115, 132, 175
Military Cross 91
Richmond Reference Library 206
Rivers, W. H. R. 75
Robert Elsmere 15
Ronan, Saiorse 182, 183
Root, Amanda 176
Rothenstein, William 195
portrait of Vera Brittain 195
Royal Affair, A 184
Royal Opera House 167
St Bartholomew’s Hospital 60
St George’s Hospital 81, 83
St Monica’s School 8, 9
St Pancras Station 53, 54, 56
St Thomas’ Hospital 103
San Sisto Ridge 102
Sassoon, Siegfried 49, 125, 129, 163
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man 125
Sayers, Dorothy L. 37
Scanlan, Joanna 184
Schreiner, Olive 9, 11, 22, 63
Story of an African Farm, The 22, 63, 119
Woman and Labour 9, 11
Scott-James, Violet 139
Second London General Hospital 90
Seed of Chaos 154
7th Worcesters 43, 60
Sharp, Stella 12, 76, 77, 80, 84
Sheppard, Canon Dick 152
Sherborne Old Boys Association 207
Sherriff, R. C. 125, 126
Journey’s End 125, 126, 127
Sherwood Foresters 55, 165, 203
Shirley Williams in Conversation 164
Short, Jesse 94
Six Points Group 104
Skyros 81
Somerville College 5, 17, 34, 48, 76, 103, 105
Somme, Battle of the 77, 78, 79, 80, 87–8, 111, 163, 168, 203
casualties 78
South African War 145
South Bank Show 177
South Riding
TV adaptation 175
Southwark Cathedral 77
Spafford, Bertram 13, 32
Spanish Farm Trilogy, The 156
Stoop, Cora 12
Story of an African Farm, The 22, 63
Strachey, Ray 144
Cause, The 144
Streep, Meryl 173
Sunday Times 141
‘Superfluous Woman, The’ 116
Swanwick, Helena 144
I Have Been Young 144
Taylor, Martin 211–12
Lads 211–12
television companies see also individual companies by name 156
10th Sherwood Foresters 74, 145
Testament of Beauty 131
Testament of Experience 122
Testament of Youth 98, 101, 111, 115, 119, 122, 130–31, 133, 136–51, 204–5, 209
feature film 169–88
film rights 155
foreword 111
republication 159–61
reviews 141–2, 143
sales 142
TV adaptation 161–4, 165–7, 175, 177
Three Arch Bridge 94
Thurlow, Geoffrey 74–5, 85, 86, 113, 115, 142, 175, 184, 203
death 88–9
letters 86, 89, 132, 175
religious faith 89
Time and Tide 104
Times Literary Supplement 121, 141, 160
Times, The 29, 74, 158, 164, 173
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 161
‘To My Brother’ 79–80, 116
Toby’s Room 192
Tóibin, Colm 183
Brooklyn 183
Towhidi, Juliette 174, 180–81, 184
Tree, Herbert 41
trenches 45, 51, 54, 55, 57, 58, 73, 78, 85, 96, 126, 148, 212
Tulip Fever 184
Turgenev, Ivan 44
On the Eve 44
Undertones of War 125, 129
unemployment 126
Uppingham School 8, 22, 24, 25, 33, 35, 158
VAD see Voluntary Aid Detachment
Varcoe, Rachel L. 164
Vera Brittain: A Life 211
Vera Brittain: A Woman in Love and War 176
Verses of a V.A.D. 114–16
Vikander, Alicia 172, 173, 183–4, 185–6
‘Villanelle’ 46–7, 121
Virago Press 159–60, 165, 196
Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) 12, 50–51, 53, 56, 60, 62, 76, 80–81, 83, 93, 97, 9
9–100, 102, 111, 113, 120, 129, 143, 150, 160, 164, 173, 184
pay 51
uniform 62, 83
WAAC see Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Wall Street crash 126
war books 125, 126, 128, 129, 143
‘War Generation’ 130
‘War Generation: Ave, The’ 167–8
War Horse 184
war literature 148
War Office 29, 49, 76
war service 50
Ward, Joseph 15, 22
Ward, Mrs Humphry 15
Robert Elsmere 15
Watson, Emily 184
We That Were Young 129
Webb, Beatrice 144
My Apprenticeship 144
West, Dominic 184
West, Rebecca 143
Western Front 35, 84, 89, 93, 187, 189, 196, 203
white feather campaigns 32
Williams, Bernard 211
Williams, Shirley 159, 163, 164, 165–6, 175, 177, 184–6, 188, 189, 192, 194, 195, 196, 199, 207–9, 211
Job To Live, A 194
Willingale, Betty 161
Woman and Labour 9, 11
women 32, 35, 127–8, 157–8
emancipation 143
higher education 11
suffrage 143
war books 128, 129
‘Women at War, 1914–18’ (exhibition) 159
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) 127
women’s rights 11
Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) 127
Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS/’Wrens’) 127
women’s suffrage 11
Wood, Mrs Henry 6
Woolf, Virginia 186
Woolwich Arsenal 73
World War II 146, 153
WRAFs see Women’s Royal Air Force
WRNS see Women’s Royal Naval Service
‘Yesterday’s Witness’ (BBC series) 158
Ypres Salient 45, 98, 203
Zeppelin raids 84
Plate Section
Vera Brittain circa 1898
Edith and Arthur Brittain
Edward and Vera Brittain
Revd Joseph Ward, curate of St Peter’s, Fairfield
Roland Leighton, circa 1913
‘The Three Musketeers’: (L to R) Edward, Roland and Victor
Edward Brittain
Roland Leighton drilling his platoon, Peterborough, 1915
Victor Richardson
Geoffrey Thurlow
Vera as a VAD, Buxton, 1915
Vera, St George’s Bay, Malta, 1916
Gloria, the ballet inspired by Testament of Youth
Cheryl Campbell and Peter Woodward as Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton in the BBC-TV adaptation of Testament of Youth, 1979
Shirley Williams outside her mother’s home, ‘Melrose’, Buxton, 2008
Vera (Alicia Vikander) with Edward (Taron Egerton) before the war in a scene from the BBC Films/Heyday Films production of Testament of Youth
The ‘Three Musketeers’ at the Uppingham Speech Day. (From left, second row) Roland (Kit Harington), (first row, second from left) Victor (Colin Morgan) and Edward
Vera at Oxford reading the casualty lists
Geoffrey (Jonathan Bailey)
Vera with the blinded Victor
Vera as a VAD
Roland picks a violet in Plug Street Wood
Roland and Vera during Roland’s final leave
Endpapers
Some of Vera Brittain’s mementoes from the First World War, including (bottom left) dried stems from the delphiniums she mentions in Testament of Youth, in her account of the arrival of the telegram with the news of Edward Brittain’s death; (centre) the menu from the New Year’s Eve 1914 dinner shared by Vera and Roland Leighton; (bottom right) the telegram informing the Brittain family of Edward’s death. (McMaster)
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