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Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War
by: Virginia Nicholson

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780141020624
ISBN: 0141020628
Label: Penguin Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: June 05, 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Studio: Penguin Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 2149

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- So near, yet so far away from perfection...
As Virginia Nicholson righly points out, many of the women left without men following WW1 were often forgotton about or viewed as a problem. Ms Nicholson has done a wonderful job of describing both the achievements of these women and the prejudices they faced. The book is extremely well-researched - the author has sought out survivors of this period, and reached into diaries, letters, news reports, literature, problem pages, etc.

However, the book feels like a missed opportunity. The women's stories are rarely accompanied by any critical analysis or historical background - the book often descends into hero worship. I would have also appreciated biographies of some of the key individuals in the book.

This book is certainly ... Read More:

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- A Land Fit for Heroines
Unlike a previous reviewer I thought there really was a representative cross section of women featured in the book, and the author came up with some quite obscure biographical details to bring the situations of women in the twenties and thirties alive. What comes across is the genuine sense of loss that some felt at being denied the chance of having a family, and the often ground-breaking successes they achieved once they decided to channel their energies in other directions. The last chapter which records these achievements is particularly uplifting, and the author herself conveys a quiet pride in what they did.

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- Barbara
I was eagerly awaiting this ore-ordered book but found it largely disappointing. There was insufficient writing/analysis about anything other than the upper classes and it would have been much more fascinating to have learnt more about the women in this country in general and their ways of accepting their "...survival without men after WW1".

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- Wonderful
This is a fascinating book. I could not put it down. It is so beautifully and accessibly written with such intriguing and poignant real life stories.

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