Singled Out
How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War
1st Edition
Published on 5. June 2008
432 pages
978-0-14-190210-4 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
This is a ground-breaking book, richly nuanced with titbits of information, insight and understanding -- Frances Spalding * The Daily Mail * Remarkably perceptive and well-researched ... Virginia Nicholson has produced another extraordinarily interesting work, sensitive, intelligent and well-written -- Selina Hastings * The Sunday Telegraph * This in an inspiring book, lovingly researched, well-written and humane... the period is beautifully caught * The Economist * Brave, humane and honest -- Hilary Spurling * The Observer * Remarkably perceptive and well-researched ... Virginia Nicholson has produced another extraordinarily interesting work, sensitive, intelligent and well-written -- Selina Hastings * The Sunday Telegraph *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
3,60 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-14-190210-4 (9780141902104)
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06/2008
Penguin Books Ltd
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Person
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.
