Singled Out [electronic resource] : How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War
Nicholson, Virginia2008
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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.
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Nicholson, Virginia, Author
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[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Books Ltd, 2008
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
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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9780141902104
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English
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2786335
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