Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War, (Paperback)

from bell7

In the British census of 1921, census takers found that there were nearly 2 million more women that men, largely because of the number of single young men that had died in World War 1. The single women of the time were known as the "Surplus Women," and in a time when marriage and children was the...

from bell7

In the British census of 1921, census takers found that there were nearly 2 million more women that men, largely because of the number of single young men that had died in World War 1. The single women of the time were known as the "Surplus Women," and in a time when marriage and children was the...

from lizchris

A very readable book about the "surplus women" left when so many young men were killed during World War I, something I'd never thought of before. I found the first chapter most moving. One woman wrote in her memoirs about getting the letter about her fiance from the War Office. "I knew then that ...

from nocto

Full of interesting stories about the 'surplus women' left without husbands in the aftermath the first world war. For some of them this was a great freedom to pursue career paths, for others it was a lifelong despair at not having families of their own. But it's interesting to think about how dif...

from tututhefirst

The premise was a sound one. The author is an academic who served as a documentary researcher for BBC television. Her research background glows in this book, but for me it simply pulled me down into a quagmire of tons upon tons of details.  If one story could have made her point, she chose t...