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Maiden voyages : magnificent ocean liners and the women who traveled and worked aboard them

text Maiden voyages : magnificent ocean liners and the women who traveled and worked aboard them

Summary
"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 pro... Read more
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 -- Ed... Read more
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Description
xi, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher
St. Martin's Press 2021

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Kingsley Branch Library 387.2 EVA in Adult Non-fiction Available
Woodmere (Main Branch) 387.2 EVA in Adult Non-fiction Available

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