Author: Cherry Drummond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902536255
Category : Women marine engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Victoria Drummond
Author: Cherry Drummond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902536255
Category : Women marine engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902536255
Category : Women marine engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Singled Out
Author: Virginia Nicholson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199703043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Almost 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. Drawing 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. 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. Some just endured, but others challenged the conventions, fought the system, and found fulfillment outside of marriage. From the mill-girl turned activist to the debutante turned archeologist, from the first woman stockbroker to the "business girls" and the Miss Jean Brodies, this book memorializes a generation of young women who were forced, by four of the bloodiest years in human history, to stop depending on men for their income, their identity, and their future happiness. Indeed, Singled Out pays homage to this remarkable generation of women who, changed by war, in turn would change society.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199703043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Almost 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. Drawing 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. 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. Some just endured, but others challenged the conventions, fought the system, and found fulfillment outside of marriage. From the mill-girl turned activist to the debutante turned archeologist, from the first woman stockbroker to the "business girls" and the Miss Jean Brodies, this book memorializes a generation of young women who were forced, by four of the bloodiest years in human history, to stop depending on men for their income, their identity, and their future happiness. Indeed, Singled Out pays homage to this remarkable generation of women who, changed by war, in turn would change society.
The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond, Marine Engineer
Author: Cherry Drummond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
House Beautiful
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Connoisseur
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Ebb and Flow
Author: Roy V Martin
Publisher: Roy V Martin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
During the Second World War the British Merchant Navy's main task was to bring food, fuel and materials to Britain and it's allies, and to ferry troops wherever they were needed. The ship's crews came from all parts of the then Empire and beyond. One in six of them lost their lives. They did much more, taking part in the evacuations and landings throughout the war. They played a key role in several of these operations, particularly the little known evacuations from France after Dunkirk and the evacuation of Singapore. They manned almost a thousand ships for the D-Day Landings, including more than half of the infantry Landing ships and all of the Hospital Carriers that ferried the wounded back to Britain.
Publisher: Roy V Martin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
During the Second World War the British Merchant Navy's main task was to bring food, fuel and materials to Britain and it's allies, and to ferry troops wherever they were needed. The ship's crews came from all parts of the then Empire and beyond. One in six of them lost their lives. They did much more, taking part in the evacuations and landings throughout the war. They played a key role in several of these operations, particularly the little known evacuations from France after Dunkirk and the evacuation of Singapore. They manned almost a thousand ships for the D-Day Landings, including more than half of the infantry Landing ships and all of the Hospital Carriers that ferried the wounded back to Britain.
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Author: Australasian Medical Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
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Report of the War Purchasing Commission ...
Author: Canada. War Purchasing Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain, and Ireland for ...
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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
Steamship Travel in the Interwar Years
Author: Lorraine Coons
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144564987X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Lorraine Coons and Alexander Varias explore the world of interwar steamship travel.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144564987X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Lorraine Coons and Alexander Varias explore the world of interwar steamship travel.