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An edition of The odd women (1893)

The odd women

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Five odd women—women without husbands—are the subject of this powerful novel, graphically set in Victorian London, by a writer whose perceptions about people, particularly women, would be remarkable in any age and are extraordinary in the 1890's. The story concerns the choices that five different women make or are forced to make, and what those choices imply about men's and women's place in society and relationship to each other.

Alice and Virginia Madden, suddenly left adrift by the death of their improvident father, must take grinding and humiliating "genteel" work. Pretty, vulnerable, and terrified of sharing their fate, their younger sister Monica accepts a proposal of marriage from a man who gives her financial security but drives her to reckless action by his insane jealousy.

Interwoven with their fortunes are Mary Barfoot and Rhoda Nunn, who are dedicating their lives to training young women for independent and useful lives, for emotional as well as economic freedom. Feminine and spirited, they are seeking not to overthrow men but to free both sexes from everything that distorts or depletes their humanity—including, if necessary, marriage. Into their lives comes Mary's engaging and forceful cousin Everard Barfoot, and as he and Rhoda become locked in an increasingly significant and passionate struggle, Rhoda finds out through the refining fire what "love" sometimes means, and what it means to be true to herself.

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Publish Date
Publisher
Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
446

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Cover of: The Odd Women
The Odd Women
September 15, 2007, BiblioBazaar
Paperback in English
Cover of: The odd women
The odd women
2000, Oxford University Press
in English
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The odd women
1998, Broadview Press
in English
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The odd women
1993, Penguin Books
in English
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The Odd Women
November 1, 1983, Plume
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The odd women
1977, Norton
in English
Cover of: The odd women.
The odd women.
1971, Norton
in English
Cover of: The odd women
The odd women
1893, Macmillan
in English

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New York

Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.G45 O, PR4716 O

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 446 p.
Number of pages
446

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6978062M
Internet Archive
cu31924013458272
LCCN
06043978
OCLC/WorldCat
5058833
Library Thing
3020

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