Important examples …

… Lost Girls by DJ Taylor review – love, war and literature 1939-51 | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… it is a general “air of waywardness and loneliness”, as Quennell put it, and also of courage among a small band of good-looking, well-born, well-connected young women who for one reason and another – two world wars and the rackety, traumatised, inattentive family situations the wars left in their wake; an inchoate but powerful instinct to do something that fed their minds; an urge not to be constrained as their mothers had been – have a claim, Taylor argues, to being a missing link in the history of female emancipation between the bright young things of the late 20s and the burgeoning freedoms of the 60s.