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The Odd Women

First published: 1893
Pages: 480

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The Fold and the Shepherd
15:38
Adrift
33:01
An Independent Woman
12:55
Monica's Majority
34:32
The Casual Acquaintance
29:33
A Camp of the Reserve
32:12
A Social Advance
35:21
Cousin Everard
31:09
The Simple Faith
22:48
First Principles
22:11
At Nature's Bidding
20:58
Weddings
28:52
Discord of Leaders
31:01
Motives Meeting
28:28
The Joys of Home
31:54
Health From the Sea
30:36
The Triumph
34:09
A Reinforcement
21:39
The Clank of the Chains
18:49
The First Lie
16:56
Towards the Decisive
27:02
Honour in Difficulties
35:00
In Ambush
19:59
Tracked
22:55
The Fate of the Ideal
37:14
The Unideal Tested
28:42
The Reascent
34:22
The Burden of Futile Souls
30:56
Confession and Counsel
32:39
Retreat With Honor
23:18
A New Beginning
23:49

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About this book

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. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.

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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.