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| Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War | 
 enlarge | Author: Virginia Nicholson
Publisher: Viking
Category: Book
List Price: £20.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 158480
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0670915645
EAN: 9780670915644
ASIN: 0670915645
Publication Date: August 23, 2007
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Condition: Slight bumpimg to jacket edges
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| Customer Reviews:
A Land Fit for Heroines August 9, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
 Barbara July 9, 2008
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
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".
 Wonderful June 13, 2008
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
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.
My non-fiction book of the year November 20, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
A very moving read. Diverse, fascinating and incredibly worthwhile. Also inspiring. Virginia Nicholson has made an excellent job of bringing to light, and to life, some of the stories of the two million women in the book's title. I have already recommended it to lots of friends and will definitely be giving a few copies for Christmas. Anyone with an interest in C20th social history will enjoy it.
Refreshing and well researched October 17, 2007
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Narrates with touching compassion a story too little understood or remembered in the modern day.
It's only flawed in the end by its unrelentingly optimismic view of human nature and almost total faith in progress, which appears to have a religious basis. All lost fiancees, who died in the war here were Boys Own style stalwarts, fair and true for example; with pen portraits that could have been lifted straight from publications of the period. In many ways this approach well suits the mood of the times, so it can be viewed as strength as well as a weakness, but it does grow somewhat wearisome towards the end.
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