Vera Mary Brittain:
(Newcastle-under-Lyme, 29 December 1893 – Wimbledon (London), 29 March 1970).
British writer, feminist and pacifist. She was best known as the author of the 1933 biographical book Testament of Youth. This book is about her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her path to pacifism.

I thought that spring must last forevermore. For I was young and loved, and it was May.
