Not Without Honour

by Vera Brittain

Vera Brittain's second novel. According to Jean Kinnard in Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby: A Working Partnership, this novel was Brittain's response to Winifred Holtby's novel The Crowded Street. It features the protagonist Christine Merivale, a girl who graduates from a vibrant career as a student in 1911 (as the novel opens), only to face a predictable life of "coming out" and marriage in her provincial hometown of Torborough. World War One looms on the horizon.

316 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1924

About the author

Vera Mary Brittain was an English writer and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.

Her daughter is Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, who is a British politician and academic who represents the Liberal Democrats.