Singled Out. How Two Million Women Survived Withour Men After the First World War

London England: Viking, 2007. Hardback. First Edition. Singled Out. It often seems to the single women today as if available menare getting scarcer; but there is nothing new about young women who can't find relationships. The First World War deprived Britain of three-quarters of a million soldiers, leaving as many more incapacitated. In 1919 a generation of women who unquestionably believed marraige to be their birthright discovered that there were, quite simply, not enough men to go round. They became known as 'the Surplus Women'. Many of us remember them: they were our teachers, our maiden aunts, women who seemed to have lost out on life's feast. This book tells their stories: it tells of the student weeping for a lost worlds as the Armistice bells pealed....the socialite who dedicated her life to resurrecting the past after her soldier love was killed....the Bradford mill girls whose campaign to better the lost of the 'War spinsters' was to make her a public figure.... and of many other who reinvented themselves. Tracing their fates, the author shows how the single woman of the inter-War decades had to stop depending on a man for her income, her identity and her happiness. Some just endured; others challeneged the conventions, fought the system, found fulfilment. This book pays homage to a remarkable generation of women. They were changed by war; in their turn they helped change society. These pages offer some of their solutions and also some of their consolations. Illustrated. 312 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.