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It would have been obvious general knowledge to any post Great War (World War I) reader in England. See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-481882/Conde
by wooster 16y ago
It would have been obvious general knowledge to any post Great War (World War I) reader in England.
See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-481882/Condemned-virgins-The-million-women-robbed-war.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-481882/Condemned-v...
- arethuza 16y agoI'm pretty sure that in "The Road To Wigan Pier" Orwell makes an observation about the effect on the British population of having a significant proportion of the youngest and healthiest men killed in the the Great War.
- kragen 16y agoInteresting. I didn't know that unmarried mothers in England at that time were "often condemned to asylums". Is such harsh treatment of single motherhood common? I can think of societies where it often carries the death penalty, but those societies also permit polygyny.