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Vera Brittain challenges the idea that wifehood is an occupation - archive, 1929 | Women | The Guardian
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Vera Brittain the famous authoress with her husband Professor George Catlin , appointed Professor of Political Science at McGill University , Montreal August 1956 - TopFoto
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Losing her first love haunted my mother all her life: Vera Brittain's fiancé, brother and friends were all killed at war, her daughter tells how the tragedy hit their whole family
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