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Originally Posted by desertblues
And the young lady does seem to know her own mind at an early age...remarkable.
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I decided to read Brittain's diary in conjunction with
Testament, and she does misrepresent herself a bit. Yes, she was ambitious and driven, she had to be, to get her father's assent to her going to Oxford, but she also enjoyed Buxton's social whirl far more than she admitted. As I recall (I haven't gotten that far yet), she also experiences much more gung-ho war fever at the start of the war than she acknowledges in the aftermath.
I'm also rather amused that she ages Roland a year, presumably out of vanity, so she wouldn't seem so much older. She claims a few months, but in fact, he was 15 months younger than she and 8 months older than her brother Edward (Brittain says Roland was much older). Brittain didn't envision a world where these facts are easily checked!