EAN: 9780199538300

THE ODD WOMEN - GEORGE GISSING TASCHENBUCH

Set in grimy  fog-ridden London  Gissing's `odd' women range from the idealistic Mary Barfoot
and Rhoda Nunn  who run a school to train young women in office skills for work  to the Madden
sisters struggling to subsist in low-paid jobs. Yet it is for the youngest Madden sister's
marriage that the novel reserves its most sinister critique. With superb detachment Gissing
captures contemporary society's ambivalence towards its own period of transition. The OddWomen
is a novel engaged with all the major sexual and social issues of the late-nineteenth century.
Judged by contemporary reviewers as equal to Zola and Ibsen  Gissing was seen to have produced
an `intensely modern' work and it is perhaps for this reason that the issues it raises remain
the subject ofcontemporary debate.

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