Singled Out
How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War
Published on 1. October 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-19-537822-1 (ISBN)
Description
From the mill-girl turned activist to the debutante turned archaeologist, from the first woman stockbroker to the "business girls" and the Miss Jean Brodies, this book memorializes a generation of young women who were forced, by four of the bloodiest years in human history, to stop depending on men for their income, their identity, and their future happiness. Indeed, Singled Out pays homage to this remarkable generation of women who, changed by war, in turn would change society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Plates, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
488 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-537822-1 (9780195378221)
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Person
Virginia Nicholson studied at Cambridge University and lived in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. Her books include the acclaimed social history Among the Bohemians--Experiments in Living 1900-1939. As a granddaughter of Vanessa Bell, grandniece of Virginia Woolf, and daughter of Quentin Bell, she garners major media attention with Bloomsbury aficionados.