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

ISBN-13: 9780141020624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 432 str.

Virginia Nicholson

Opis

Tells the 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. This title is about those women, and about how they were forced, to stop depending on men for their income.

Recenzje

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

O autorze

Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex, and studied at Cambridge University. She lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for the BBC. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her books include the acclaimed social histories Among the Bohemians, Singled Out, Millions Like Us, and Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes. She is married with three grown-up children and lives in Sussex.