Singled Out – How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War: Virginia NicholsonThis book focuses on a section of society that I’d only been dimly aware of, namely the women who remained single after the men they might well have married had been killed during the first world war. The ‘lost generation’ are still remembered, even now, but not so much the women who lived on without them, even though their existence in such numbers changed society and women’s place in it, as this book details.
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