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Title Maiden voyages : magnificent ocean liners and the women who traveled and worked aboard them / Siân Evans.
Author Evans, Siân, author.
Publisher New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
Copyright ©2020
Description xi, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition First U.S. Edition.
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 CI-Lower Stacks  387.2432 EVA Nearby on shelf  31800003670680 11-02-21  AVAILABLE
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
Summary Entertaining social history captures the golden age of ocean liners through the stories of the women whose transatlantic journeys changed the shape of society on both sides of the globe.
Subject Ocean liner passengers -- North Atlantic Ocean -- Biography.
Women merchant mariners -- North Atlantic Ocean -- Biography.
Ocean liners -- North Atlantic Ocean -- History.
Women travelers -- History -- 20th century.
Transatlantic voyages -- History -- 20th century.
Seafaring life.
Genre Biographies.
Other title Magnificent ocean liners and the women who traveled and worked aboard them
ISBN 9781250246462
1250246466