"[Gissing] achieved one of the very few novels in English that can be compared with those of the French naturalists who were his contemporaries." --Walter Allen, The English Novel
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"[Gissing] achieved one of the very few novels in English that can be compared with those of the French naturalists who were his contemporaries." --Walter Allen, The English Novel
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Add this copy of The Odd Women to cart. $34.88, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Plume.
The Odd Woman is an unusually nuanced novel about the plight of middle class unmarried women without financial resources in late 19th-century England. The main characters, as well as the secondary ones, are very well drawn. Even the villains have sympathetic sides. Such a feminist perspective, with empathetic aspects, is very unusual for the publication date of 1893, a year before the term "New Woman" was drawn.
