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The Odd Women

by George Gissing

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First published
1893
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Read by Elizabeth Klett · 14 h 8 min · 31 parts

  1. The Fold and the Shepherd

    15:38

  2. Adrift

    33:01

  3. An Independent Woman

    12:55

  4. Monica's Majority

    34:32

  5. The Casual Acquaintance

    29:33

  6. A Camp of the Reserve

    32:12

  7. A Social Advance

    35:21

  8. Cousin Everard

    31:09

  9. The Simple Faith

    22:48

  10. First Principles

    22:11

  11. At Nature's Bidding

    20:58

  12. Weddings

    28:52

  13. Discord of Leaders

    31:01

  14. Motives Meeting

    28:28

  15. The Joys of Home

    31:54

  16. Health From the Sea

    30:36

  17. The Triumph

    34:09

  18. A Reinforcement

    21:39

  19. The Clank of the Chains

    18:49

  20. The First Lie

    16:56

  21. Towards the Decisive

    27:02

  22. Honour in Difficulties

    35:00

  23. In Ambush

    19:59

  24. Tracked

    22:55

  25. The Fate of the Ideal

    37:14

  26. The Unideal Tested

    28:42

  27. The Reascent

    34:22

  28. The Burden of Futile Souls

    30:56

  29. Confession and Counsel

    32:39

  30. Retreat With Honor

    23:18

  31. A New Beginning

    23:49

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In a Victorian England where women outnumber men and marriage is treated as a woman's only proper aim, Gissing follows several who fall outside that plan. The Madden sisters slide into genteel poverty after their father dies, and the youngest, Monica, escapes into a marriage to an older man that quickly becomes a cage. Set against them are Rhoda Nunn and Mary Barfoot, who train young women in office work so they can support themselves, and whose convictions are tested when love comes calling. Published in 1893, the novel takes the era's woman question seriously without offering easy answers, giving equal weight to the freedom independence brings and the loneliness it can cost.

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George Gissing

George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist whose work drew on his own years of poverty and hardship. Author of New Grub Street and The Odd Women, he wrote unsparingly about class, money, and the frustrated ambitions of the educated poor in late Victorian England.

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Book facts

First published
1893
Reading time
About 10 hours
Pages
480
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Elizabeth Klett