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How two million women survived without men after the First World War
The First World War deprived Britain of three-quarters of a million soldiers. The press ran stories about the 'Problem of the Surplus Women - Two Million who can never become Wives ... '. Tracing their fates, this book shows how the single woman of the inter-war decades had to stop depending on men for her income, her identity and her happiness.
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- "The First World War deprived Britain of three-quarters of a million soldiers. The press ran stories about the 'Problem of the Surplus Women - Two Million who can never become Wives ... '. Tracing their fates, this book shows how the single woman of the inter-war decades had to stop depending on men for her income, her identity and her happiness."@en
- "After the First World War a generation of women who believed marriage to be their right found that there were simply not enough men to go round. Tracing their fates, Nicholson shows how the single woman of this time had to depend on herself."@en