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Singled Out - How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War (Paperback)
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Singled Out - How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War (Paperback)
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Loot Price R556
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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 public figure--and many
others who, deprived of their traditional roles, reinvented
themselves into something better. Tracing their fates, Nicholson
shows that these women did indeed harbor secret sadness, and many
of them yearned for the comforts forever denied them--physical
intimacy, the closeness of a loving relationship, and children.
Some just endured, but others challenged the conventions, fought
the system, and found fulfillment outside of marriage. From the
mill-girl turned activist to the debutante turned archeologist,
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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