Selected Letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935 Quotes

“English lecturers... who treat the Americans as a race of barbarians without any history should be taken for a tour round Washington before they are permitted to speak!”
― Vera Brittain, Selected Letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

“Wisconsin was covered several inches deep in snow -- very beautiful, with light ice-floes on the lakes and rivers, and the bare trees and tall grasses like brown feathers against the snow. As the sun set it was reflected in the ice-covered lakes and the light snow -- but all the same I'm glad that most of my [lecture] tour has been in summer and autumn weather. As soon as winter comes there is an extraordinary effect of desolation in these miles upon miles of uninhabited prairies and hills.”
― Vera Brittain, Selected Letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935