Titanic: Women and Children First

Judith B. Geller

W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 1998 - Transportation - 224 pages

Presented here are personal interviews with survivors and their relatives, and biographies of the women and children as well as the male passengers and crew with whom they had contact. The passengers' own voices are recorded in diaries, letters, and newspaper stories. Each passenger section (first class, second class, and third class) is introduced with a brief overview on the conventions of society at the turn of the twentieth century, when survival in life, as on this doomed ship, depended too often on social class.

Also assembled here are fascinating color photographs of recently recovered artifacts, linked to their owners wherever possible, as well as period postcards, advertisements, and pictures. This book contains the most up-to-date passenger list yet published; a chart of the women and children who perished or were saved presented by class; and a comprehensive index which make this not just a moving chronicle of a uniquely painful event but also an invaluable resource.

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Review: Titanic: Women and Children First

User Review  - jess b - Goodreads

What I was looking for from this book were some solid historical facts on the lives and lifestyles of women aboard the Titanic, and this book definitely offered that (as well as lots of information ...

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User Review  - Brittney - Goodreads

This was a very interesting book. There was a fair amount of supposition that was mildly distracting. I found myself going back and rereading just to determine fact from fiction.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Titanic: Women and Children First
• Author: Judith B. Geller
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 1998
• ISBN: 0393046664, 9780393046663
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History