Singled Out
  • Published: 5 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141020624
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.99

Singled Out

How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War

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The touching and beautifully told story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn helped change society

In 1919 a generation of young women discovered that there were, quite simply, not enough men to go round, and the statistics confirmed it. After the 1921 Census, the press ran alarming stories of the 'Problem of the Surplus Women - Two Million who can never become Wives...'. This book is about those women, and about how they were forced, by a tragedy of historic proportions, to stop depending on men for their income, their identity and their future happiness.
  • Published: 5 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141020624
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Virginia Nicholson

Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After studying at Cambridge University she lived in France and Italy and then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. Her first book, Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden (written in collaboration with her father, Quentin Bell), was an account of the Sussex home of her grandmother, the painter Vanessa Bell.
Books published by Penguin include Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 and Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War. She is married and has three children.

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Praise for Singled Out

Remarkably perceptive and well-researched ... Virginia Nicholson has produced another extraordinarily interesting work, sensitive, intelligent and well-written

The Sunday Telegraph

This is a ground-breaking book, richly nuanced with titbits of information, insight and understanding

The Daily Mail

Remarkably perceptive and well-researched ... Virginia Nicholson has produced another extraordinarily interesting work, sensitive, intelligent and well-written

The Sunday Telegraph

This in an inspiring book, lovingly researched, well-written and humane... the period is beautifully caught

The Economist

Brave, humane and honest

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