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Book Synopsis The Odd Women-Classic Edition(Annotated) by : George Gissing Gissing
Download or read book The Odd Women-Classic Edition(Annotated) written by George Gissing Gissing and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement.
Book Synopsis The Odd Women-Classic Edition(Annotated) by : George Gissing
Download or read book The Odd Women-Classic Edition(Annotated) written by George Gissing and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement.
Download or read book The Odd Women written by George Gissing and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odd Women (1893) is a novel by George Gissing. Inspired by a report of over one million more women living in Britain than men, Gissing sought to explore the societal and personal implications of unmarried life while exploring the demands of the growing feminist movement. The Odd Women is a story of romance, independence, and the pressures of society that poses important questions about convention in Victorian England while proving surprisingly relevant for our own times. After moving together to London, the unmarried Madden sisters rekindle their relationship with Rhoda, a neighbor and friend from their childhood in Clevedon. Rhoda, also unmarried, lives with Mary Barfoot, with whom she runs a secretarial school for young women. While Monica, the youngest Madden sister, is bullied into marrying Edmund Widdowson, a middle-aged brute, Rhoda rejects the advances of Mary’s cousin Everard. Opposed to marriage altogether, Rhoda is initially able to avoid the fate of Monica, who suffers in her stifling relationship with Edmund and longs for a younger, romantic man named Bevis. Striking up an affair, Monica meets secretly with Bevis while attempting to avoid the suspicions of her jealous, overbearing husband. When a detective hired by Edmund sees Monica knock on the door of Everard’s apartment, Edmund sets out to smear the innocent man’s name just as he has secured an engagement with the reluctant Rhoda. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of George Gissing’s The Odd Women is a classic work of English literature reimagined for modern readers.
Book Synopsis The Odd Women Annotated by : George Gissing
Download or read book The Odd Women Annotated written by George Gissing and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement.
Book Synopsis The Odd Women Annotated by : George Robert Gissing
Download or read book The Odd Women Annotated written by George Robert Gissing and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement.The novel begins with the Madden sisters and their childhood friend in Clevedon. After various travails, the adult Alice and Virginia Madden move to London and renew their friendship with Rhoda, an unmarried bluestocking. She is living with the also unmarried Mary Barfoot, and together they run an establishment teaching secretarial skills to young middle-class women remaindered in the marriage equation.Monica Madden, the youngest and prettiest sister, is living-in above a shop in London. She is, in modern parlance, "stalked" by a middle-aged bachelor Edmund Widdowson, and he eventually brow-beats her into marriage. His ardent love turns into jealous obsession suffocating Monica's life.
Download or read book The Odd Women written by George Gissing and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-02-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of The Odd Women by George Gissing is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition
Download or read book The Odd Women written by George Gissing and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of ‘odd’ or ‘redundant’ women, the cultural impact of ‘the new woman,’ and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be ‘odd’ or ‘redundant,’ and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing’s text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written. In Gissing’s story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Odd Women by : George George Gissing
Download or read book The Odd Women written by George George Gissing and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Madden died prematurely, failing to provide his six daughters with anything but a bookcase full of poetry and romantic novels. His savings were too scarce for the girls to live comfortably, so they had to find jobs and leave their family house. Poor Gertrude, Martha, and Isabel had died too; they weren't prepared for harshness of reality. Alice moved to London and so did Virginia. They hoped to find well-paid jobs there and help Monica, the baby of the family and the prettiest one among them. They believed that at least she would marry and settle down.
Book Synopsis The Odd Women (Feminist Classic) by : George Gissing
Download or read book The Odd Women (Feminist Classic) written by George Gissing and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odd Women is a historical novel which deals with themes such as the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement. There was the notion in Victorian England that there was an excess of one million women over men. This meant there were "odd" women left over at the end of the equation when the other men and women had paired off in marriage. A cross-section of women dealing with this problem are described in "The Odd Women" and it can be inferred that their lifestyles also set them apart as odd in the sense of strange.
Book Synopsis The Odd Women (Classic Reprint) by : George Gissing
Download or read book The Odd Women (Classic Reprint) written by George Gissing and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Odd Women Honour in Difficulties; In Ambush; Tracked; The Fate of the Ideal; The Unideal Tested; The Reascent; The Burden of Futile Souls; Confession and Counsel; Retreat with Honour; A New Beginning About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Odd Women Illustrated by : George Gissing
Download or read book The Odd Women Illustrated written by George Gissing and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is this book unique? Illustrations included A more well-known story One of the best books to read Extremely well formatted Matte Attractive cover The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement.
Book Synopsis The Odd Women - George Gissing by : George Gissing
Download or read book The Odd Women - George Gissing written by George Gissing and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absolutely fascinating, trailblazing and early work of feminism and social realism! This novel reflects the important sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Here, women are portrayed as "odd" and marginal in relation to an ideal. Set in a smoggy London, our heroines range from the idealistic, financially autonomous Mary Barfoot; to the Madden sisters who struggle to get by in low paying jobs.Alice and Virginia Madden move to London and renew their friendship with Rhoda, an unmarried bluestocking. She is living with the also unmarried Mary Barfoot, and together they run an establishment teaching secretarial skills to young middle-class women remaindered in the marriage equation.Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement.
Book Synopsis The Odd Women Illustrated by : George Gissing
Download or read book The Odd Women Illustrated written by George Gissing and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement
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Book Synopsis The Odd Women by George Gissing (Guaranteed Annotated) by : George Gissing
Download or read book The Odd Women by George Gissing (Guaranteed Annotated) written by George Gissing and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odd Women is a Victorian novel by George Robert Gissing. First published in 1893, the book follows two women who must forge independent lives for themselves when they fail to find husbands. Critics praise Gissing for sensitively tackling gender issues and Victorian sexuality. For a Victorian novel, it is a provocative work. Gissing, an English novelist, wrote twenty-three novels. He is recognized as one of the most accomplished realist writers of the late-Victorian period. Aside from fiction writing, Gissing worked as a teacher and private tutor. The Odd Women is one of his most popular novels.The protagonists are Mary Barfoot and Rhoda Nunn, single women living in Victorian England. Society deems these women "odd" because they haven't attracted husbands. Even stranger, according to Victorian standards, these women choose singlehood; they are anti-marriage.An extreme feminist who actively campaigns against gender stereotyping, Rhoda is particularly opposed to marriage. She thinks that only weak women fall in love, giving men power over their hearts. She refuses to associate with married women because she thinks she is better than them.Marginally more sympathetic towards married women, Mary knows she will never marry. All she wants is a comfortable career and intellectual stimulation. She helps other single women find jobs and feel better about their status. With Rhoda's help, she establishes a clerical school for middle-class women. These women then move on to find jobs and live, typically, as spinsters forever.One day, Rhoda's childhood friends, Alice and Virginia Madden, visit. They have recently moved to London, and they have heard all about the successful clerical school. They miss Rhoda and hope to rekindle their friendship. Rhoda, however, is skeptical. She believes they are tainted by marriage and she would rather forget them.Alice and Virginia remind Rhoda that she loved a man once. When Rhoda was fifteen, she fancied an older man called Smithson. He was a widower and he had a sickly daughter. She admired his grace and his progressive views. He believed that women should have more independence and that they are intellectually equal to men.The problem was that Smithson didn't love Rhoda. He loved her spirit and hoped that she would change politics. He dismissed her and she never saw him again. She hates herself for loving Smithson. She takes out her unhappiness on married women because she envies what they have. She never admits this to Mary.Rhoda learns that married life isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Monica despises her husband, Edmund. He is obsessive, controlling, and temperamental. He stalked her relentlessly until she agreed to marry him. Now, she can't go anywhere without his permission, and she fears she will never be free again. She is beautiful, and she regrets that she is wasting her beauty on a cruel man.Virginia is single, but she is nothing like Rhoda or Mary. She hates being single; she craves love. She drinks excessively to block out the loneliness. She wants a husband like Edmund; she doesn't care about anything else. Rhoda can't understand Virginia and they rarely speak.In the meantime, Everard shows up. Everard is Mary's cousin. He is obsessed with Rhoda from the moment he sees her. Mary discourages the match, but Everard plans to win Rhoda's hand. Rhoda thinks he is laughable because she will never marry. She decides to lead him on and reject his marriage proposal.
Book Synopsis The Annotated Little Women (The Annotated Books) by : Louisa May Alcott
Download or read book The Annotated Little Women (The Annotated Books) written by Louisa May Alcott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of Louisa May Alcott illuminates the world of Little Women and its author. Since its publication in 1868–69, Little Women, perhaps America’s most beloved children’s classic, has been handed down from mother to daughter for generations. It has been translated into more than fifty languages and inspired six films, four television shows, a Broadway musical, an opera, and a web series. This lavish, four-color edition features over 220 curated illustrations, including stills from the films, stunning art by Norman Rockwell, and iconic illustrations by children’s-book illustrators Alice Barber Stevens, Frank T. Merrill, and Jessie Wilcox Smith. Renowned Alcott scholar John Matteson brings his expertise to the book, to the March family it creates, and to the Alcott family who inspired it all. Through numerous photographs taken in the Alcott family home expressly for this edition—elder daughter Anna’s wedding dress, the Alcott sisters’ theater costumes, sister May’s art, and Abba Alcott’s recipe book—readers discover the extraordinary links between the real and the fictional family. Matteson’s annotations evoke the once-used objects and culture of a distant but still-relevant time, from the horse-drawn carriages to the art Alcott carefully placed in her story to references to persons little known today. His brilliant introductory essays examine Little Women’s pivotal place in children’s literature and tell the story of Alcott herself—a tale every bit as captivating as her fiction.
Book Synopsis The Odd Women (English Edition) by : George Gissing
Download or read book The Odd Women (English Edition) written by George Gissing and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement.
