Sian Evans

Maiden Voyages

women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel

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Produktbeschreibung

How the Golden Age of transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women's lives across all classes - a vivid portrait of life on-board the iconic ocean liners.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 164mm x 241mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9781473699021
• ISBN-10: 1473699029
• Artikelnr.: 60095627

Autorenporträt

Cultural historian Siân Evans has worked for the National Trust, the V&A and the Design Museum, and is the author of several works of social history including Queen Bees, Mrs Ronnie: The Society Hostess Who Collected Kings, The Manor Reborn and Life Below Stairs. Siân lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Dramatis Personae
Prologue
Introduction: Cresting the Waves
1. Floating Palaces and the "Unsinkable" Violet Jessop
2. From the Ritz to the Armistice
3. Sail Away: Post-war Migratoin and the Escape from Poverty
4. The Roaring Twenties
5. Edith Sowerbutts and Her Contemporaries
6. For Leisure and Pleasure
7. Depression and Determinatoin
8. The Slide to War
9. Women under Fire
10. Romance, Repatriation and Recovery
Conclusion: Sailing into the Sunset
Ships' Names by "Lucio"
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

PRAISE FOR QUEEN BEES: 'So entertaining' The Times