“The Courtship of Eva Eldridge:” WWII’s Working Women and Marriage Madness
Diane Simmons’s The Courtship of Eva Eldridge: A Story of Bigamy in the Marriage-Mad Fifties tells the true story of one woman, whose life was transformed by World War II and its aftermath. Here is the rarely told female side of the “Greatest Generation:” her war work, the shifting government propaganda about women’s roles, and the charming man she loved, …