Maiden voyages : magnificent ocean liners and the women who traveled and worked aboard them /
In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Maiden Voyages explores how women's lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America. During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners. It was an extrao...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Dramatis personae
- Prologue
- Introduction : cresting the waves
- Floating palaces and the "unsinkable" Violet Jessop
- From the Ritz to the Armistice
- Sail away : post-war migration and the escape from poverty
- The roaring twenties
- Edith Sowerbutts and her contemporaries
- For leisure and pleasure
- Depression and determination
- The slide to war
- Women under fire
- Romance, repatriation and recovery
- Conclusion : sailing into the sunset
- Ships' names by "Lucio".