The Odd Women
A British Literature, Victorian, Classics book. There should be no such thing as a class of females vulgarized by the necessity of finding daily amusement....
Five odd women—women without husbands—are the subject of this powerful novel, set in Victorian London, by a writer whose perceptions about people, particularly women, would be remarkable in any age and are extraordinary in the 1890s. The story concerns the choices that five different women have to make and what those choices imply about men's and women's status in society and relationship to each other.Alice and Virginia Madden, suddenly left adrift by the death of their improvident father, must take grinding and humiliating "genteel" work. Terrified of sharing their fate, their younger sister Monica accepts a proposal of marriage from a man who gives her financial security but makes her life wretched.Interwoven with their fortunes are Mary Barfoot and Rhoda Nunn, who are dedicating their lives to training young women in skills they can use to support themselves. Their broader aim is to help free both sexes from whatever distorts or depletes their humanity—including, if necessary, marriage. Into their lives comes Mary's forceful and engaging cousin, Everard Barfoot, and as he and Rhoda become locked in an increasingly significant and passionate struggle, Rhoda...
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- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9780393006100 / 393006107
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I wish girls fell down and died of hunger in the streets, instead of creeping to their garrets and the hospitals. I should like to see their dead bodies collected together in some open place for the crowd to stare at.'Monica gazed at her with wide eyes.'You mean, I suppose, that people would try to reform things.''Who knows? Perhaps they might only congratulate each other that a few of the superfluous females had been struck off. George Gissing, The Odd Women // differentswift, virile George Gissing, The Odd Women // in George Gissing, The Odd Women //
A vastly underrated novel. I'd never heard of this author until he was recommended on one of the Amazon threads. I enjoyed this story which at heart offers two tales of "love" by two very different women. Monica is a young woman who marries an older man and trade one prison for another. Rhoda is principled and idealistic and revels... Introduction--The Odd WomenSelected Bibliography This is an astonishing book: a subversive, feminist take on marriage and womens roles in society, written by a man in the 1890s. I suspect thats not a coincidence, that a woman couldnt have gotten away with this book and its criticism of Victorian marriage and Victorian men. And to round out the praise, it is also an excellent story,...
