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Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War

Autor Virginia Nicholson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2008
Virginia Nicholson'sSingled Outis the touching and beautifully told story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn helped change society.

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.

'This is a ground-breaking book, richly nuanced with titbits of information, insight and understanding'Daily Mail

'Remarkably perceptive and well-researched ... Virginia Nicholson has produced another extraordinarily interesting work, sensitive, intelligent and well-written'Sunday Telegraph

'This in an inspiring book, lovingly researched, well-written and humane... the period is beautifully caught'Economist

'Brave, humane and honest'Observer

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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141020624
ISBN-10: 0141020628
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: ill
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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.

Recenzii

This is a ground-breaking book, richly nuanced with titbits of information, insight and understanding
Remarkably perceptive and well-researched ... Virginia Nicholson has produced another extraordinarily interesting work, sensitive, intelligent and well-written
This in an inspiring book, lovingly researched, well-written and humane... the period is beautifully caught
Brave, humane and honest