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Author: George Gissing Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 492
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The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement.
Author: George Gissing Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 492
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The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement.
Author: George Gissing Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 488
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The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement.
Author: George Robert Gissing Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 492
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The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement.The novel begins with the Madden sisters and their childhood friend in Clevedon. After various travails, the adult Alice and Virginia Madden move to London and renew their friendship with Rhoda, an unmarried bluestocking. She is living with the also unmarried Mary Barfoot, and together they run an establishment teaching secretarial skills to young middle-class women remaindered in the marriage equation.Monica Madden, the youngest and prettiest sister, is living-in above a shop in London. She is, in modern parlance, "stalked" by a middle-aged bachelor Edmund Widdowson, and he eventually brow-beats her into marriage. His ardent love turns into jealous obsession suffocating Monica's life.
Author: George Gissing Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 394
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The Odd Women is a Victorian novel which deals with themes such as the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement. There was the notion in Victorian England that there was an excess of one million women over men. This meant there were "odd" women left over at the end of the equation when the other men and women had paired off in marriage. A cross-section of women dealing with this problem are described in "The Odd Women" and it can be inferred that their lifestyles also set them apart as odd in the sense of strange.
Author: George Gissing Publisher: IndyPublish.com ISBN: 9781404322929 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 408
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A novel of social realism, The Odd Women reflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Unlike the "New Woman" novels of the era which challenged the idea that the unmarried woman was superfluous, Gissing satirizes that image and portrays women as "odd" andmarginal in relation to an ideal. Set in a grimy, fog-ridden London, Gissing's "odd" women range from the idealistic, financially self-sufficient Mary Barfoot to the Madden sisters who struggle to subsist in low paying jobs and little chance for joy. With narrative detachment, Gissing portrayscontemporary society's blatant ambivalence towards its own period of transition. Judged by contemporary critics to be as provocative as Zola and Ibsen, Gissing produced an "intensely modern" work as the issues it raises remain the subject of contemporary debate.
Author: George Gissing Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780140433791 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 426
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"[Gissing] achieved one of the very few novels in English that can be compared with those of the French naturalists who were his contemporaries." -Walter Allen, The English Novel
Author: George George Gissing Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 252
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Dr. Madden died prematurely, failing to provide his six daughters with anything but a bookcase full of poetry and romantic novels. His savings were too scarce for the girls to live comfortably, so they had to find jobs and leave their family house. Poor Gertrude, Martha, and Isabel had died too; they weren't prepared for harshness of reality. Alice moved to London and so did Virginia. They hoped to find well-paid jobs there and help Monica, the baby of the family and the prettiest one among them. They believed that at least she would marry and settle down.
Author: George Gissing Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 500
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The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement
Author: George Gissing Publisher: Broadview Press ISBN: 1770488286 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 416
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George Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of ‘odd’ or ‘redundant’ women, the cultural impact of ‘the new woman,’ and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be ‘odd’ or ‘redundant,’ and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing’s text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written. In Gissing’s story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century.
Author: George Gissing
Author: George Gissing
Author: George Gissing
Author: George Robert Gissing
Author: George Gissing
Author: George Gissing
Author: George Gissing
Author: George George Gissing
Author: George Gissing
Author: George Gissing
Author: George Gissing