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Virginia Nicholson
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Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War |
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Paperback |
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432 |
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2008-06-05 |
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0141020628 |
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Penguin |
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0.62 pounds |
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5.12 x 0.0 x 7.64 inches |
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Paperback. Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 432 Publisher: Penguin In 1919 a generation of withyoung 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.
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