The odd women / George Gissing ; edited with an introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gissing, George, 1857-1903.

Contributor:

Ingham, Patricia.

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Fiction.

Women.

Middle class women--Fiction.

Middle class women.

Women--England--Fiction.

Single women--Fiction.

Single women.

Sisters--Fiction.

Sisters.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Edition:

[New edition] / edited with an introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text dramatises many key issues relating to class and gender in late Victorian culture. In Gissing's story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of George Gissing; Map: The London of The Odd Women; THE ODD WOMEN; 1. THE FOLD AND THE SHEPHERD; 2. ADRIFT; 3. AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN; 4. MONICA 'S MAJORITY; 5. THE CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE; 6. A CAMP OF THE RESERVE; 7. A SOCIAL ADVANCE; 8. COUSIN EVERARD; 9. THE SIMPLE FAITH; 10. FIRST PRINCIPLES; 11. AT NATURE'S BIDDING; 12. WEDDINGS; 13. DISCORD OF LEADERS; 14. MOTIVES MEETING; 15. THE JOYS OF HOME; 16. HEALTH FROM THE SEA; 17. THE TRIUMPH; 18. A REINFORCEMENT; 19. THE CLANK OF THE CHAINS

20. THE FIRST LIE21. TOWARDS THE DECISIVE; 22. HONOUR IN DIFFICULTIES; 23. IN AMBUSH; 24. TRACKED; 25. THE FATE OF THE IDEAL; 26. THE UNIDEAL TESTED; 27. THE REASCENT; 28. THE BURDEN OF FUTILE SOULS; 29. CONFESSION AND COUNSEL; 30. RETREAT WITH HONOUR; 31. A NEW BEGINNING; Explanatory Notes

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2000.

Description based on print version record and publisher information.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxviii]-xxix).

ISBN:

0-19-160530-1

0-19-192131-9

1-280-68004-0

9786613656971

0-19-158758-3

OCLC:

712015916