Singled Out (60 page)
Authors: Virginia Nicholson
VADs,
suicide,
Valentino, Rudolph,
Sunday Express
,
Vancouver Island,
Symonds, Evelyn, –, ,
venereal diseases,
–
Versailles Peace Conference
syphilis,
(–),
teaching: women in, , –,
Wade, Rosalind:
Treasure in
, –; marriage bar, ,
Heaven
,
; in literature, –, –
Wadham, Dorothy,
technology
see
engineering and Wainwright, Gerald,
technology
Wakeham, Olive, –, ,
theatre: women in,
Walsh, Nellie, –
Thompson, Dorothy,
war widows,
Thorn, Nancy C.,
Warburton, Doris, –
Thorold (stockbroker chairman),
Ward, Irene,
–
Warrack, Harriet, –, –
Time andTide
(magazine),
Warriner, Doreen,
Titanic
(ship), ,
Waters, Ethel and Doris,
Townsend Warner, Sylvia:
Waugh, Evelyn:
Decline andFall
, homosexuality, , ; on self-
sufficiency, ; writings, ;
Webb, Beatrice,
Lolly Willowes
, –
Webster, Bessie, –, –
trade unions,
Weldon’s Ladies’ Journal
,
travel, , –
Wells, H.G., , ;
Ann Veronica
, Trollope, Anthony,
, n
Trubshawe, Pansy,
Wells, Joe, –
Tuckwell, Gertrude,
West, Maud,
Turner, Dame Eva,
Westminster Gazette
,
Turner, Sefton,
White, Albert,
Tweedy, Rosamund:
Consider Her
White, Annie,
xiii,
–, –
Palaces
, –
White, Caroline, , –
typists
see
office and clerical work White, Florence: working-class
Index
background,
xiii,
–; love –, –, ; teaching, ,
affair, ; temper, , –;
–, , –; university
campaigns for pensions for
education, –, , ; seen
spinsters, , –, ,
as threat by men, –; and
–; unmarried state, ,
sexual liberation, –; as
; relations with sister Annie,
wives, –; property rights, ;
–; opens confectioner’s and
middle-class, , ;
baker’s shop, ; retires, ;
working-class, , ;
self-sufficiency, ; writings,
upper-class, –, ;
emigration to Empire and
White, James, ,
colonies, –; advertise for
Whitehead, Albert,
husbands, –; as friends, ;
Whitman, Walt,
desire for motherhood, –,
Wilberforce, Dr Octavia,
; careers, –, ;
Wilde, Oscar:
The Importance of
earnings, –, –, ,
Being Earnest
,
, ; hostel living, –,
Wilkinson, Ellen, –
; diet and eating, –,
Williams, Dr Cicely,
–; in factory work, –,
Williams, Miss R.,
–; housing and homes,
Winstanley, Hilda,
–; intelligence as obstacle to
Wolf, Alison,
marriage, ; male idealisation
Woman
(magazine),
of, –; desire for pleasure
Woman Engineer
( journal),
and fulfilment, –; travellers,
Woman’s Fair
(magazine),
, –; in trade unions,
Woman’s Friend
(magazine), –
; in engineering and
Woman’s Leader, The
(magazine), technology, , , –,
; legal and professional
Woman’s Life
(magazine), –, , equality, –; mental
, –
toughness, ; academics,
Woman’s National Liberal
–;
see also
bachelor girl; Federation,
New Women; spinsters and
Woman’s Weekly
(magazine), –, spinsterhood
, , –, ,
Women’s Employment
(magazine),
Woman’s World
(magazine), –
women: surplus numbers,
xi,
xiii,
Women’s Engineering Society,
–, ; work and professions,
Women’s Freedom League,
xiv,
–, –, –, , Women’s League of Health and
–, –, , ; war
Beauty, ,
work, –; suffrage
Women’s Pioneer Housing
movement and enfranchisement,
Company,
Index
Women’s Social and Political
Wootton, Barbara, Baroness, ,
Union, ,
,
Women’s Voluntary Service (
later
working classes: women,
xiii,
Royal),
–, ,
Wood, Sir Kingsley,
Wragg, Ethel,
Woolf, Virginia:
A Room of One’s
writing: as profession, ,
Own
, ;
The Voyage Out
,
Zweig, Ferdynand, –
1. 1914–18: the pitiless destruction of a generation of young men.
2. Wartime munitions workers: in those same four years the female workforce increased by nearly a million.
new world for single women was
flickering into life. Bicycles were
among the heralds of change.
4. Somerville students in 1917. Winifred Holtby, seated, on the far right.
Somerville College, Oxford from 1926 to 1931; she was also a noted penal reformer.
6-7. Celebrating physical vigour, the Women’s League of Health and Beauty may not have done much to comfort men scarred and crippled by a remorseless conflict.
fortunate in experiencing marriage and
8. Richmal Crompton: ‘the last surviving motherhood, but the war was to change example of the Victorian professional aunt’.
her elite social scene for ever.
a celebrated catwalk
model who described
herself as ‘free range’.
12. Cicely Hamilton lived ‘like the traditional spinster, 11. Joan Evans lost the man she loved in with a cat for company’.
1915, and by the age of twenty-two had given up hope of marriage.
and her dogs, Elizabeth Goudge
(right)
learned to ‘deeply prize the blessings of a single life’.
14. ‘Rose-coloured carpets were mine’; stockbroker Beatrice Gordon Holmes
photographed in the 1940s.
15. The staff of the Electrical Association for Women honour their founder Caroline Haslett, awarded the DBE in June 1947.
chose to be photographed leaning
against her Chairman’s Rolls Royce.
Victoria Drummond passes her Chief
Engineer’s exam.
18. ‘Gert and Daisy’: Elsie and Doris Waters.
19. ‘I thought a god was there’: Richard Aldington in 1931, the year Irene
Rathbone first met him.
book reviews in the weekly
Everyman
, 1933.
21.
Private View
(1937) by Gladys Hynes. Unmistakable in the centre of the picture, Radclyffe Hall and her lover Una Troubridge saw no need to conceal their sexual orientation in such tolerant milieux.
22. A Universal Aunt.
23. ‘Other people’s babies …’; but there were compensations to be had in the rich social life led by nannies between the wars.
24. Mary Milne, Matron of St Mary’s
Hospital, Paddington. Her fiancé was
killed in the war.
25. Tea, sympathy and iron discipline; in the 1920s nursing was one of the few professions seen as respectable for decent young ladies.
Cornwall.
26. After her mother’s death, Phyllis Bentley rediscovered a guiltless freedom.
28. Winifred Haward and Louis Hodgkiss: ‘a great love 29. ‘I would live my life over again’: lady’s that survives the night and climbs the stars’.
maid Rose Harrison.
30. Post-war, women replenished the ranks of white-collar workers killed in the trenches.
31. In 1921 ninety per cent of women working in the retail sector were single; even at the luxury end, they often worked twelve-hour days in atrocious conditions.
32. Margery Perham’s eminence as an expert on African affairs
was recognised by the British government. Margery with Masai Caton-Thompson.
warriors in Kenya, 1930.
34. Women working in the laboratory at Girton College, Cambridge.
35. Maude Royden in the pulpit.
Rosamund Essex with her adopted son, David.
37. Picnics and prayer meetings: members of the Christian Alliance of Women and Girls on holiday in Scarborough, 1929.
38. Campaigning for spinsters: on the right, Florence White.
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1 Where Have All the Young Men Gone?
- 2 ‘A world that doesn’t want me’
- 3 On the Shelf
- 4 Business girls
- 5 Caring, Sharing…
- 6 A Grand Feeling
- 7 The Magnificent Regiment of Women
- Notes on Sources
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index