George Gissing

The Odd Women (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

When their father's death leaves them with no money and a dim future, the Madden sisters, Alice, Virginia, and Monica, must negotiate the gender roles and class constraints of Victorian London in the 1890s. Virginia and Alice have aged out of the possibility of marriage and seemingly the idea of love itself and find themselves with few prospects and little hope. Remaindered in the marriage equation, these odd women face a great deal of scrutiny, stigma, and social pressureit's at this time that Rhoda Nunn, childhood friend to the Madden sisters, arrives in London to challenge accepted norms and mores around the role of women in society. Rhoda's strong feminist passion draws a sharp contrast to the middle-class respectability of the Madden sisters' upbring, as the sisters watch a new world emerge around them.

Hailed as a prescient and boldly political novel of the early feminist movement, Gissing's The Odd Women captures all of the absurdity, brutality, and even comedy of Victorian attitudes around gender and class, and the brilliant women who dared to be odd and to conceive of their role in society beyond their value on the marriage market.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Unnamed Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781961884250
• Artikelnr.: 72256586

Autorenporträt

George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Meagrely successful in his lifetime, he had by the 1940s been recognised as a literary genius, with George Orwell pronouncing that "England has produced few better novelists".