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Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War - Hardcover

Nicholson, Virginia

 
9780670915644: Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0670915645 ISBN 13: 9780670915644
Verlag: Viking, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The First World War deprived Britain of three-quarters of a million soldiers, with as many more incapacitated. In 1919 a generation of women who unquestioningly believed marriage to be their birthright discovered that there were, quite simply, not enough men to go round. The press ran alarming stories about the ‘Problem of the Surplus Women – Two Million who can never become Wives . . .’. But behind the headlines were thousands of brave, emancipated individuals forced by a tragedy of historic proportions to rethink their entire futures.

Tracing their fates, Virginia Nicholson shows how the single woman of the inter-war decades had to stop depending on men for her income, her identity and her happiness. Some just endured, others challenged the conventions, fought the system and found fulfilment. Singled Out pays homage to this remarkable generation of women who were changed by war, and in their turn helped change society.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She has worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television and her first book, Charleston – A Bloomsbury House and Garden (written in collaboration with her father, Quentin Bell), was an account of the Sussex home of her grandmother, the painter Vanessa Bell. Her second book, Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900―1939, was published by Penguin in 2002. She lives in Sussex.

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Verlag
Viking
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0670915645
ISBN 13 
9780670915644
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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