{"product_id":"2026200011085-secondhand-the-odd-women","title":"The Odd Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956217229531,"sku":"2026200011085-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a2e08a80-67cc-426a-af6c-67e20b225eee.png?v=1783499109","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011085-secondhand-the-odd-women","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}