![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on a wealth of sources including unpublished autobiographies, individual interviews, problem pages and lonely hearts columns, it explores their economic, emotional and sexual survival. ![]() Grief and war forced these women to rebuild their lives, and to stop depending on men for their income, identity and happiness. This book is a rich, moving and ultimately affirmative account of the spinsters forgotten by history but remembered by many of us as our teachers and our maiden aunts. In the 1920s they were known as the ‘Surplus Women’. Singled Out tells the story of a generation of women, brought up in the unquestioning belief that marriage was their birthright, who discovered after the 1914-18 war that there were, quite simply, not enough men to go round. To the Bridget Jones generation it often seems as if available men are getting scarcer but there is nothing new about young women who can’t find relationships. How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War ![]()
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