Singled Out: Virginia Nicholson
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10 - Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War - Virginia Nicholson
Non-Fiction
Pages: 336
This is a wonderful book - very moving and touching in places, very inspiring and admirable in others. It's about the generation born just before the turn of the century, who were raised to believe that being a wife and mother should be the sum total of their ambitions and then found after WWI that there simply weren't enough men to go around and most of them would never marry. It's about how they faced that, how some rose above the difficulty to become leaders of their sex, how many entered public life and fought against male prejudice, and how in the end it's likely that the war and the two million 'surplus women' actually hastened the equal rights movement and the equality of the sexes. A very very good book and one every woman should read.