The Odd Women
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
First published in 1893, The Odd Women is a landmark work of Victorian social fiction that boldly confronts the question of women's independence and purpose in a society ill-equipped to accommodate them. George Gissing chronicles the lives of several unmarried women navigating poverty, limited prospects, and societal expectation in late nineteenth-century London, presenting a world where marriage is both a trap and a necessity. At the heart of the novel, the progressive Rhoda Nunn and the idealistic Everard Barfoot engage in a fierce intellectual battle of wills over love, freedom, and feminism — a debate as electric today as it was in Gissing's era. With unflinching realism and moral complexity, the novel argues that women's true liberation lies in economic self-sufficiency and the courage to defy convention. The Odd Women stands as one of the most incisive and prescient works of the Victorian age.
Author: George Gissing
Format: Paperback
Published: 1980, Virago Modern Classics
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
First published in 1893, The Odd Women is a landmark work of Victorian social fiction that boldly confronts the question of women's independence and purpose in a society ill-equipped to accommodate them. George Gissing chronicles the lives of several unmarried women navigating poverty, limited prospects, and societal expectation in late nineteenth-century London, presenting a world where marriage is both a trap and a necessity. At the heart of the novel, the progressive Rhoda Nunn and the idealistic Everard Barfoot engage in a fierce intellectual battle of wills over love, freedom, and feminism — a debate as electric today as it was in Gissing's era. With unflinching realism and moral complexity, the novel argues that women's true liberation lies in economic self-sufficiency and the courage to defy convention. The Odd Women stands as one of the most incisive and prescient works of the Victorian age.