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.