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Author Gissing, George, 1857-1903.

Title The odd women / George Gissing ; edited with an introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 386 pages) : map.
Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxix).
Note Print version record.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of George Gissing; Map: The London of The Odd Women; THE ODD WOMEN; Explanatory Notes.
Summary Set in grimy, fog-ridden London, Gissing's 'odd' women range from the idealistic Mary Barfoot and Rhoda Nunn, who run a school to train young women in office skills for work, to the Madden sisters struggling to subsist in low-paid jobs. Yet it is for the youngest Madden sister's marriage that the novel reserves its most sinister critique. With superb detachment Gissing captures contemporary society's ambivalence towards its own period of transition. The Odd Women is anovel engaged with all the major sexual and social issues of the late-nineteenth century. Judged by contemporary reviewers as equinox.
Subject Women -- Employment -- Fiction.
Middle class women -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
Women -- England -- Fiction.
Single women -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Sisters -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Single women -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
FICTION -- General.
Middle class women. (OCoLC)fst01020482
Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
Single women. (OCoLC)fst01119452
Sisters. (OCoLC)fst01119758
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Women -- Employment. (OCoLC)fst01176715
Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Electronic books.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Added Author Ingham, Patricia.
Other Form: Print version: Gissing, George, 1857-1903. Odd women. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 019283312X (DLC) 2002510883 (OCoLC)59378897
ISBN 9780191587580 (electronic bk.)
0191587583 (electronic bk.)
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