"Singled Out" post-WW1 women & society - Nov 4th lecture in Brighton

[Chris]

see link for the lecture date of Nov 4th (and / 
or other lectures, too, if of interest)
http://www.regencysociety.org.uk/

£5 on the door to non-members of the Brighton 
Regency Society.  If interested in joining please 
go early to join up on the day; (take your NUS 
card with you to get a year's membership for £5)
Cheers
Chris

November 4th 2009
"Singled Out" – the story of the two million 
women left without the prospect of marriage after the First World War.
Virginia Nicolson, well known writer and 
grand-daughter of the painter Vanessa Bell. A 
trustee of Charleston near Firle, a home of members of the Bloomsbury Group.
"Singled Out" is a recent book by Virginia which 
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. In the 1920s they were known as the ‘Surplus Women’
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