The Guardian (review by Lynn Knight)
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson 312pp, Viking.
It is impossible to tell from this review how much coverage is given to Gertrude Caton-Thompson, whose book, Mixed Memoirs, I keep meaning to read. I have her two volume Desert Fayoum on my shelves, and it is a masterpiece of archaeological and geoarchaeological work for its time.
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson 312pp, Viking.
Virginia Nicholson's Singled Out salutes the intrepid women whose dreams of marriage were destroyed by war . . . . .Singled Out is rich in stories of determined, intrepid women (including Egyptologist Gertrude Caton-Thompson, who shared one camp with a family of cobras). Its final chapter reaches a crescendo with a roll call of achievers.
It is impossible to tell from this review how much coverage is given to Gertrude Caton-Thompson, whose book, Mixed Memoirs, I keep meaning to read. I have her two volume Desert Fayoum on my shelves, and it is a masterpiece of archaeological and geoarchaeological work for its time.
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