The Odd Women by George, Ingham, Patricia (Fellow, Fellow, St Anne's College, Oxford) Gissing

The Odd Women by George, Ingham, Patricia (Fellow, Fellow, St Anne's College, Oxford) Gissing`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd women no making a pair with them.' The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the `New Woman' novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But in The Odd Women (1893) Gissing satirizes the prevailing literary image of the `New Woman' and makes the point that unmarried women were generally viewed less as noble and romantic figures than as `odd' and

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