Singled Out How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men after the First World War

Name: Singled Out How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men after the First World War
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ISBN: 9780195378221

ISBN-10: 0195378229

ISBN-13: 9780195378221

Edition: 2008

Authors: Virginia Nicholson

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Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast. Drawing upon a wealth of moving memoirs, Singled Out tells the inspiring stories of these women: the student weeping for a lost world as the Armistice bells pealed, the socialite who dedicated her life to resurrecting the ancient 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…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



Where Have All the Young Men Gone?


Two women


The crown and joy


Deeply loved and sadly missed


A world without men


Surplus Two Million



'A world that doesn't want me'


The twilight state


Odd women and Ann Veronicas


The spinster problem


Destiny and the devil


The more of us the merrier



On the Shelf


Husbands


Mr Wrong


Heart-to-heart chats


A buyers' market


'But who will give me my children?'



Business Girls


War, work and wives


Palaces of commerce


A rotten hard life


Miss All-Alone in the classroom


Miss All-Alone on the wards



Caring, Sharing ...


Lonely days


Companions, consolations


Other people's babies


Lonely nights


The blessed fact of loving



A Grand Feeling


A cause, a purpose and a passion


The Well


The urge


Finding happiness as a 'bach'


Surviving the night



The Magnificent Regiment of Women


The challenge of loss


We are not downhearted


A good strong character


Doing things that matter


'You loved him'


Notes on Sources


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Index