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This edition includes the following analysis by the editor in the form of a conclusion: "The Odd Women," a pioneering novel of women's emancipation
Originally published in 1893, “The Odd Women” is a Victorian novel by English novelist George Gissing and it is considered one of his most popular novels. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement. Critics praise Gissing for sensitively tackling gender issues and Victorian sexuality but, for a Victorian novel, it was a very provocative work.
“The Odd Women” follows two women who must forge independent lives for themselves when they fail to find husbands.
The novel tells the story of the Madden sisters, Alicia, Virginia and Monica. Their father’s death leaves them in poverty and forces them to seek ways to support themselves – this at a time when career options for genteel women were close to nonexistent. The two elder sisters find work as governesses or lady’s companions and just barely manage to make ends meet, living lives of respectable poverty and quiet starvation. In addition to this, the fact that they have to work has of course social consequences, one of them being that it bars them from the career followed by most Victorian women: marriage. Monica, the youngest of the Misses Madden, works as a shopgirl, and her youth and beauty make Alicia and Virginia hope that she’ll escape becoming one of the odd women the title refers to – “odd” both because as single women they were regarded as strange, and because they remained unpaired...
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GenreRomance, General Fiction, Young Adult
Length15 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 20, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - THE FOLD AND THE SHEPHERD
2Chapter 2 - ADRIFT
3Chapter 3 - AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN
4Chapter 4 - MONICA'S MAJORITY
5Chapter 5 - THE CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE
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6Chapter 6 - A CAMP OF THE RESERVE
7Chapter 7 - A SOCIAL ADVANCE
8Chapter 8 - COUSIN EVERARD
9Chapter 9 - THE SIMPLE FAITH
10Chapter 10 - FIRST PRINCIPLES
11Chapter 11 - AT NATURE'S BIDDING
12Chapter 12 - WEDDINGS
13Chapter 13 - DISCORD OF LEADERS
14Chapter 14 - MOTIVES MEETING
15Chapter 15 - THE JOYS OF HOME
16Chapter 16 - HEALTH FROM THE SEA
17Chapter 17 - THE TRIUMPH
18Chapter 18 - A REINFORCEMENT
19Chapter 19 - THE CLANK OF THE CHAINS
20Chapter 20 - THE FIRST LIE
21Chapter 21 - TOWARDS THE DECISIVE
22Chapter 22 - HONOUR IN DIFFICULTIES
23Chapter 23 - IN AMBUSH
24Chapter 24 - TRACKED
25Chapter 25 - THE FATE OF THE IDEAL
26Chapter 26 - THE UNIDEAL TESTED
27Chapter 27 - THE REASCENT
28Chapter 28 - THE BURDEN OF FUTILE SOULS
29Chapter 29 - CONFESSION AND COUNSEL
30Chapter 30 - RETREAT WITH HONOUR
31Chapter 31 - A NEW BEGINNING
32"The Odd Women," a pioneering novel of women's emancipation
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