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Singled out: how two million British women survived without men after the First World War
Virginia Nicholson
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page vii)
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Introduction (page xi)
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1 Where Have All the Young Men Gone?
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Two women (page 1)
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The crown and joy (page 10)
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Deeply loved and sadly missed (page 13)
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A world without men (page 19)
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Surplus Two Million (page 22)
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2 'A world that doesn't want me'
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The twilight state (page 28)
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Odd women and Ann Veronicas (page 33)
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The spinster problem (page 42)
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Destiny and the devil (page 46)
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The more of us the merrier (page 53)
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3 On the Shelf
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Husbands (page 60)
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Mr Wrong (page 66)
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Heart-to-heart chats (page 73)
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A buyers' market (page 77)
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'But who will give me my children?' (page 92)
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4 Business Girls
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War, work and wives (page 103)
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Palaces of commerce (page 109)
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A rotten hard life (page 121)
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Miss All-Alone in the classroom (page 125)
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Miss All-Alone on the wards (page 138)
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5 Caring, Sharing...
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Lonely days (page 146)
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Companions, consolations (page 151)
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Other people's babies (page 166)
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Lonely nights (page 173)
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The blessed fact of loving (page 180)
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6 A Grand Feeling
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A cause, a purpose and a passion (page 188)
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The Well (page 201)
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The urge (page 209)
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Finding happiness as a 'bach' (page 216)
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Surviving the night (page 226)
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7 The Magnificent Regiment of Women
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The challenge of loss (page 233)
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We are not downhearted (page 238)
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A good strong character (page 245)
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Doing things that matter (page 250)
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'You loved him' (page 268)
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Notes on Sources (page 273)
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Select Bibliography (page 285)
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Acknowledgements (page 293)
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Index (page 299)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JBRS | 48.4 (Oct. 2009): 1037-1039 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/27752676 |
Citable Link
Published: c2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780195378221 (paper)
- 9780199703043 (ebook)