Poor Darling
Jean McNicol, 21 March 1996
Vera Brittain: A Life
by Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge.
Chatto, 581 pp., £25, October 1995,0 7011 2679 5 Show More
by Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge.
Chatto, 581 pp., £25, October 1995,
Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life
by Deborah Gorham.
Blackwell, 330 pp., £20, February 1996,0 631 14715 2 Show More
by Deborah Gorham.
Blackwell, 330 pp., £20, February 1996,
“... devoid of that heroic limelight’. After his death Brittain seems to have needed all the more, as Deborah Gorham stresses, to see Leighton as a saint-like figure, and she took to writing of Him, with a Christ-like capital letter. Told by Roland’s sister Clare that she had idealised him whereas Clare had ‘loved him for his faults’, Vera wrote: ‘so ... ”
