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"The Lost Generation"
The "Lost Generation" is a term used to refer to the generation, actually an age cohort, that came of age after World War I and signing the Treaty of Versailles, formally ended the war. -
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Women Voting
The year official year recognized for women to vote was in 1919, that was when the amendment was actually passed. In multiple states women got the the right to vote in 1920 and were entering the workforce in record numbers. -
Alchohol/Prohibition
In the beginning of the 20th century, there were Temperance organizations in nearly every state. By 1916, over half of the U.S. states already had statutes that prohibited alcohol. In 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcohol, was ratified. It went into effect on January 16, 1920 -
Experience
A collective group of artists and writers who settled in Europe in the wake of the First World War. Many members of the Lost Generation saw combat in World War I, sometimes as volunteers who traveled to Europe early, protesting America's lack of involvement in the early years of the war. -
Gertrude Stein
The phrase “Lost Generation” originates from a conversation Gertrude Stein overheard between a French garage owner and his employee in the early 1920s. While Stein was waiting for her truck to be repaired, the garage’s owner became displeased with the speed at which his employee, a young veteran of World War I, was working. -
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Clothing&Fashion
Clothing changed with women’s changing roles in modern society, particularly with the idea of freedom for women. Although society matrons of a certain age continued to wear conservative dresses, forward-looking and younger women now made sportswear into the greatest change in post-war fashion. The tubular dresses of the ’Teens had evolved into a similar silhouette that now sported shorter skirts with pleats, gathers, or slits to allow motion to rule women’s fashion for the first time in history. -
Dancing
In the aftermath of World War I, America entered a prosperous era and, as a result of her role in the war, came out onto the world stage. Social customs and morals were relaxed in the giddy optimism brought on by the end of the war and the booming of the Stock Market. New music and new dances came on the scene. -
Ernest Hemingway
In 1921, Hemingway went to Paris, where he met a number of American authors. He became the principal spokesman for a group of disillusioned younger writers sometimes called the "Lost Generation." -
Literary Figures of the 1920s: The Lost Generation
Literary Figures of the 1920s: The Lost Generation writers who cae of age after WWI and before "The Great Depression" -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1896-1940), was the leading writer of America's Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, and one of its glittering heroes. The chief quality of Fitzgerald's talent was his ability to be both a leading participant in the high life he described, and a detached observer of it. -
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Hemingway & Fitzgerald
The status of affairs in America in the years following the First World War spawned a generation of authors termed “the lost generation.” In response to the political and social atmosphere of the United States these authors sought cultural refuge in European cities. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald are two prominent authors who followed the path to becoming the lost generation.
