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how two million women survived without men after the First World War

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An edition of Singled out (2007)

Singled out

how two million women survived without men after the First World War

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"The First World War deprived Britain of three quarters of a million soldiers, leaving as many more incapacitated. In 1919 a generation of women who unquestioningly believed marriage to be their birthright discovered that here were, quite simply, not enough men to go round. They became known as 'the Surplus Women'." "Many of us remember them: they wee our teachers, our maiden aunts, women who seemed to have lost out life's feast. This book tells their stories: it tells of the student weeping for a lost world as the Armistice bells pealed ... the socialite who dedicated her life to resurrecting the past after her soldier love was killed ... the Bradford mill girl whose campaign to better the lot of the 'War spinsters' was to make her a public figure ... and of many other who reinvented themselves." "Tracing their fates, Virginia Nicholson shows how the single woman of the inter-War decades had to stop depending on a man for her income, her identity and her happiness. Some just endured; others challenged the conventions, fought the system, found fulfilment. Singled Out pays homage to a remarkable generation of women. They were changed by war; in their turn they helped change society. These pages offer some of their solutions, and also some of their consolations."--BOOK JACKET

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Viking
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-292) and index.

Published in
London, New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
D639.W7 N73 2007, D639.W7

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 312 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
312

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL13638504M
Internet Archive
singledouthowtwo0000nich
ISBN 10
0670915645
ISBN 13
9780670915644
LCCN
2007531673
OCLC/WorldCat
123798064
Library Thing
3829126
Goodreads
1096582

Work Description

In 1919 a generation of young women discovered that there were, quite simply, not enough men to go round, and the statistics confirmed it. After the 1921 Census, the press ran alarming stories of the 'Problem of the Surplus Women - Two Million who can never become Wives...'. This book is about those women, and about how they were forced, by a tragedy of historic proportions, to stop depending on men for their income, their identity and their future happiness.

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