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poets who wrote autobiography
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Vera Brittain
Vera Brittain (1893-1970)

nurse, poet, women's rights activist, pacifist, journalist, peace activist, suffragist

  • University of Oxford

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Testament of youth
Testament of friendship
Testament of experience
Chronicle of youth
Letters from a lost generation
The rebel passion
England's hour
Radclyffe Hall
Testament of youth
One Voice
Testament offriendship
Dark Tide
Wartime chronicle
Diary 1939-1945, wartime chronicle
England's Hour
Honourable estate
Chronicle of friendship
Testament of a peace lover
Account rendered
Phoenix: Chronicle of Youth
Good citizenship and the League
Valiant pilgrim
The women at Oxford
Poems of the war and after
Pethick-Lawrence
In the steps of John Bunyan
Honourable Estate
Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby
Born 1925, a novel of youth
Testament of youth
Testament of Youth
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In (Virago Modern Classics)
Because you died
Humiliation with honor
Verses of a V.A.D
Seed of chaos
On becoming a writer
Honourable estate
Humiliation with honour
War diary 1913-1917
Vera Brittain's Diary 1939-1945
Testament of a generation
Born 1925
Testament of experience
Thrice a stranger
Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth
Radclyffe Hall
Testament of friendship; the story of Winifred Holtby
The story of St. Martin's
Born 1925
Verses of a V. A. D.
Testament of Youth
Pethick-Lawrence
"One of these little ones..."
Born 1925
Envoy extraordinary
Women's work in modern England
On being an author
Oxford poetry
Search after sunrise
Testament of youth
Lady into woman
Diary 1939-1945, wartime chronicle
Envoy extraordinary
Halcyon
Halcyon or the future of monogamy
On becoming a writer
Valient pilgrim
Lady into woman
War-time letters to peace lovers
BORN 1925
Radclyffe Hall
Above all nations
Verses of a V.A.D. and other war poems
The dark tide
The story of St. Martin's (in the fields)
Women's work in modern England
Testament of experience
How shall the Christian Church prepare for new world order?
The rebel passion
Verses of a V.A.D.
Testament of friendship
Zai Ying lun qian xian
Anthony Cronin
Anthony Cronin (1922-2016)

poet, poet lawyer, barrister

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Fadwa Tuqan
Fadwa Tuqan (1917-2003)

poet

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Roderich Menzel
Roderich Menzel (1907-1987)

tennis player, journalist, poet, playwright, association football player

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Liao Yiwu
Liao Yiwu (born 1958)

poet, musician, journalist

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György Faludy
György Faludy (1910-2006)

poet, translator

  • University of Vienna, Humboldt University of Berlin

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Grand Corps Malade
Grand Corps Malade (born 1977)

slam poet, poet, singer, film director, recording artist

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Babur
Babur (1483-1530)

poet, autobiographer, monarch

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