Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 September 1935) came from a farming family in Yorkshire, met Vera Brittain at Oxford University and shared a house in London as they began their careers as ...

“Testament of Youth” is one of those lush British period pieces whose elegance captures the history and romance of the time it portrays, while at the same time facing grim realities of the era ...

Winifred Holtby was an acclaimed novelist, journalist, feminist and social reformer. Her work encompasses six novels, two short story collections, a play and the first critical study of Virginia Woolf ...

Vera Brittain, irrepressible, intelligent and free-minded, overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to Oxford. With everything to live for, she falls in love with ...

Publication date 1985 Topics Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 -- Political and social views, Holtby, Winifred, 1898-1935 -- Political and social views, Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- ...

How the Testament of Youth author's intense correspondence with novelist Winifred Holtby nursed her back to psychological health ...

In her Testament of Friendship (1940), Brittain suggested that the husbandless, childless Winifred, five years her junior, had been the chief beneficiary of their relationship. By then, Winifred was ...

Brittain later wrote two other books, ‘Testament of Friendship’ and ‘Testament of Experience’, underlining key areas where we are tested throughout all stages of life.

At her brother Edward’s graduation from Uppingham the previous June (the last gay party of her youth, though she could not know it) she had fallen in love with ‘the record Prize boy,’Roland ...