![]() ![]() ![]() Some just endured, but others challenged the conventions, fought the system, and found fulfillment outside of marriage. Tracing their fates, Nicholson shows that these women did indeed harbor secret sadness, and many of them yearned for the comforts forever denied them-physical intimacy, the closeness of a loving relationship, and children. Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World WarĪlmost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast.ĭrawing upon a wealth of moving memoirs, Singled Out tells the inspiring stories of these women: the student weeping for a lost world as the Armistice bells pealed, the socialite who dedicated her life to resurrecting the ancient past after her soldier love was killed, the Bradford mill girl whose campaign to better the lot of the "War spinsters" was to make her a public figure-and many others who, deprived of their traditional roles, reinvented themselves into something better. ![]()
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