how two million women survived without men after the first World War
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Nicholson, Virginia
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1E 2007
- Thesaurus
- ongehuwde vrouwen, interbellum, eerste wereldoorlog, historisch, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The first World War deprived Britain of three-quarters of a million soldiers, so in 1919 a generation of women who wanted to get married discovered that there were not enough men to go round: ‘The surplus women’. Tracing their fates, this book shows how the single woman of the inter-war decades had to stop depending on men for her income, her identity and her happiness.