Women's Autobiography
Subtitle: War and Trauma
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 3, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781403903068
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literature and the war; History and criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Women Authors; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Women Authors; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; World War, 1939-1945; Autobiography; Biography; World War, 1914-1918
First sentence: In Testament of Experience: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1925-1950 (1957), Vera Brittain describes the effects of writing her first, more famous, autobiographical volume: 'By enabling me to set down the sorrows of the First War and thus remove their bitterness, Testament of Youth became the final instrument of a return to life from the abyss of emotional death' (pp. 75-6).