Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them Evans Sin
Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them Evans Sin In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Sin Evans's Maiden Voyages explores how women's lives…
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them Evans Sin
In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Sin Evans's 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. Some traveled for leisure, some for work; others to reinvent themselves or find new opportunities. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women, whose lives were changed forever by their journeys between the Old World and the New.
The ocean liner was a microcosm of contemporary society, divided by They were celebrities, migrants and millionaires, refugees, aristocrats and crew members whose stories have mostly remained untold--until now.Maiden Voyages is a fascinating portrait of the era, the ships themselves, and these women as they crossed the Atlantic.