Vera Brittain at the First London General Hospital, Camberwell, 1915 |
VERA BRITTAIN (1893-1970), writer, feminist, and pacifist, is best known for her haunting memoir of the First World War, Testament of Youth.
Her writings, published and unpublished, remain in copyright. Anyone wishing to quote from Vera Brittain’s work, or to reproduce it, whether in print or other media, should apply to the literary executors for the Vera Brittain Estate, Mark Bostridge and Timothy Brittain-Catlin. They can be contacted at verabrittainliteraryestate @ gmail .com |
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When requesting permission to use Vera Brittain’s work in published form, please provide • full details of your publication and publisher • an exact reference to the material you wish to use, together with a rough word count • some background about the book or article • in the case of a book, a rough estimate of the number of copies scheduled for publication. Please note that abridgement within a quotation is not permissible and that incomplete applications cannot be considered. |
Vera Brittain at Buxton, circa 1912 |
Requests for performance or reading rights should also be addressed to the literary executors.
A charge is usually made for the commercial use of copyright material.
The Vera Brittain Archive is preserved in the Special Collections at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
The Vera Brittain Collection is at Somerville College, Oxford.
A charge is usually made for the commercial use of copyright material.
The Vera Brittain Archive is preserved in the Special Collections at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
The Vera Brittain Collection is at Somerville College, Oxford.