Vera Brittain Collection

Vera Brittain (1893-1970), the writer, pacifist and feminist, is perhaps most famous as the ‘voice of the Lost Generation’ of World War One through her autobiographical work Testament of Youth – one of the first accounts of the Great War from a woman’s point of view, and undoubtedly the most influential.

Somerville holds the research archive of her friend, biographer and literary executor Paul Berry. A summary of the available holdings is contained in the Vera Brittain-Paul Berry Index (pdf 16kb).  The papers are now housed in the Vera Brittain Room in the College archives.

Vera Brittain’s personal archive is held by McMaster University, Ontario.