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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
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Author:
Siân Evans
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
August 10, 2021
An exploration of how women's lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America in the twentieth century. They were celebrities, migrants, millionaires, refugees, aristocrats and crew members whose stories have mostly remained untoldâuntil now.
What The Reviewers Say
... wonderfully readable.
Evans' book is strongest when she discusses the women hired to work aboard the ocean liners.
Siân Evans tells stories of the women who made the crossing and those who took care of them from embarkation on one continent to docking on another.
All in all, Evans writes a compelling account of how ocean travel—for white women, in particular—evolved in concert with women's roles in the cruise industry during the early 20th century.
