Odd Women
''One of the great feminist novels of the 19th century'' - Vivian Gornick
George Gissing''s intensely modern The Odd Women is one of the truly great novels of nineteenth-century fiction. The impoverished Madden sisters are ill-equiped to support themselves when their father dies, and Monica sees her only chance of escape from a life of grinding misery in marriage. When she is befriended by two inde...
''One of the great feminist novels of the 19th century'' - Vivian Gornick
George Gissing''s intensely modern The Odd Women is one of the truly great novels of nineteenth-century fiction. The impoverished Madden sisters are ill-equiped to support themselves when their father dies, and Monica sees her only chance of escape from a life of grinding misery in marriage. When she is befriended by two inde...
