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

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Description	1 online resource (xxxi, 386 pages) : map.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Oxford world's classics
	Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxix).
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 eq.
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Subject	Women -- Employment -- Fiction.
	Women -- Employment.
Genre/Form	Fiction.
Subject	Middle class women -- Fiction.
	Middle class women.
	London (England) -- Fiction.
	Women -- England -- Fiction.
	Women.
	England.
	Single women -- Fiction.
	Single women.
	Sisters -- Fiction.
	Sisters.
	Sisters -- England -- London -- Fiction.
	England -- London.
	Single women -- England -- London -- Fiction.
	Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
	Great Britain.
	Social conditions.
	Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
	Sex role.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Psychological fiction.
	Psychological fiction.
	Domestic fiction.
	Domestic fiction.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
	Gender roles.
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 book)
	0191587583 (electronic book)
	019283312X
	9780192833129

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

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